Sofia Vanderlan explains that she “thinks in flowers.” A bead artist, canoe builder and college student, Sofia has spent the past seven summers with her grandmother Agatha Armstrong in Grand Portage, ...

ESCANABA, Mich. (WLUC) - Members of the Escanaba Sault Tribe Community Building are constructing a birch bark canoe. Larry Godfrey says birch bark canoes are to native tribes like cars are to ...

September 6, 2015 – Red Lake hip hop artist and rapper Thomas Barrett Jr. combines awareness, history, pride and the Ojibwe language in his music. The 26-year-old musician started writing after ...

The building of birchbark canoes is a legacy that was close to disappearing but is now much more alive, following a hands-on program to replicate a 19th century Passamaquoddy canoe that involved over ...

Two Passamaquoddy basketmakers were among the top award winners at one of the nation's most prestigious shows for Native artists, the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair and Market in Phoenix, Ariz., which ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "BIRCH BARK CANOE OF THE ...

PEMBINA, ND (KXNET) — The Pembina State Museum is inviting the public to its Monthly Movie Matinee screening. On June 28, they will be showing “Birchbark Canoes,” which is a documentary about a group ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. FROM CARD: "AN OPEN, ROUND-BOTTOMED, ...

In 1634, when Jean Nicolet stepped ashore near Green Bay, he was considered the first of many French explorers, traders, and missionaries to explore our state. Some, like Brule, Radisson, Marquette, ...

CRANE LAKE, MINN. – Walleyes are one reason I come to this lake. Another is the memory of my old pal, Betty Lessard. Betty’s grandfather and his family traveled into this country in the late 1800s, ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route. For centuries, Indigenous communities used Lake ...