In the coming years you can expect to see Lake Union bustling with beautiful hand-carved indigenous canoes as construction is slated to begin this year on a new native Canoe Carving House at Lake ...

SEATTLE – The Seattle Design Commission is working to develop the Northwest Native Canoe Center in Lake Union Park. Still in its early design phase, the center would consist of two buildings near the ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows how a carving project taught history and Native American culture to Seattle students.

SEATTLE — Crews will soon break ground on a canoe carving house as part of the Northwest Native Canoe Center. On Friday, stakeholders were able to take a closer look at the space that will eventually ...

An ancient dugout canoe, remarkably preserved for 1,200 years in Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, has been discovered. This ...

In Hawai’i, the art of carving outrigger canoes has traditionally been a male pursuit. Many women have captained and paddled the canoes, but few have learned to build them—an undertaking that requires ...

The “littlest canoe carver in the world” carefully sanded a cedar paddle. That’s how Dave Paul described 7-year-old Amelia McConville, who stood as tall as her nearly finished 3½-foot cedar paddle.

Jan. 6 was a typical overcast day in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Few of the tech workers from the nearby offices of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were outside at lunchtime. Only a few ...

Friday, Earth day, a handful of archivists, fishing experts and environmentalists stood under a white tent. At the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s outdoor amphitheater stage, log shavings from ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Visitors to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture over the last couple of months might've noticed a group of people carving canoes out of two one hundred year old cedar logs.

Celebrations were held in Seattle Friday as a decades-long effort to create a Northwest Native Canoe Carving and Welcome Center was officially recognized. The United Indians of All Tribes Foundation ...

More than 150 years after Seattle’s government tried to ban Native residents and more than 50 years after Native activists embarked on a campaign to regain waterfront access in the city, a space ...