For the past three weeks, students and faculty at the University of Ottawa have been learning how to build a birch bark canoe from start to finish under Marcel Labelle's guidance.

The strips will be the inner sheathing of a birch bark canoe she and 50 of her fellow fifth-graders have worked on since January. “This takes a lot of strength and control,” Finney said.

CHICAGO (CBS) --There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...

Ralph Frese, 85, owner of Chicagoland Canoe Base on Chicago's Northwest Side, is working in conjunction with a museum in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, to restore an old birch bark canoe. "This canoe is ...

NETT LAKE (AP) -- While June Porter diligently stitches together the honey-colored birch bark forming the outside of the canoe, Hank Goodsky asks the young firetender how the ribs are doing.

The students in the aboriginal arts program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design have gathered spruce roots, birch bark and ash and cedar wood to build the canoe. Using instructions handed ...

More than 20 years ago, the Miawpukek First Nation sought the advice of a Quebec Mi'kmaq elder to restore that birchbark canoe-building tradition.

When Marcel Labelle decided to chart a new career course building birch bark canoes 13 years ago, it was a journey that would help him reconnect with his Indigenous heritage while taking his craft to ...

CHICAGO (WBBM) — There are only a few people left in the U.S. who know the Native American skill of building birch bark canoes. One of them is currently an artist in residence at Northwestern ...