Grant Goltz and Christy Hohman-Caine of Hackensack work alongside Jim Jones, a Leech Lake Band member of Cass Lake, to create a replica of a canoe documented from the 1860s. The group of ...
It's easy to picture what the Ojibwa saw in the 1400s when they first traveled in birchbark canoes to what is now Ontario's Quetico Provincial Park. Little here has changed since then and ...
Also, Ray Boessel, Jr, of Bigfork follows in his late grandfather-in-law’s footsteps, handcrafting birchbark canoes. Boessel’s grandfather-in-law, Bill Hafeman, gained worldwide recognition when he ...
The Jan. 17 event at the Watermark Art Center is connected with an exhibit of an Ojibwe birchbark canoe build and other artworks. Mayaadaaboonojig, meaning “the ones drifting off on the current,” ...
This documentary depicts a canoe being built in the traditional manner Cesar Newashish a 67yearold Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve North of Montréal uses only birchbark cedar splints spruce ...