Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wayne Valliere and his apprentice Lawrence Mann use a handmade birchbark canoe and other traditional gear to spearfish. LAC DU ...

Reid Schwartz (left) and Bill Gould put the hand-crafted birchbark canoe into the Contoocook River Saturday morning, May 29, 2021. Credit: GEOFF FORESTER—Monitor staff Sign up for the Concord ...

Ken Weeks owned a 900-square-foot apartment in Manhattan’s Alphabet City in 1999, but he was ready to party like it was 1799. Weeks worked at the Metropolitan Opera, which specializes in spectacle, as ...

Indigenous students and community members gathered at the beach outside the Northwestern Sailing Center on Friday morning to launch a hand-crafted birch bark canoe for its inaugural trip on Lake ...

Isabelle Hardlotte was with her sister while the large, narrow, brown box was being unloaded. As the box opened, the birch bark canoe her grandfather built almost 50 years ago was back with his family ...

At daybreak Friday, a handcrafted Native American birchbark canoe launched into Lake Michigan from a beach in Evanston. The last time that happened was likely nearly two centuries ago — when Native ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU - People along the shore were yelling “Good luck, Wayne!” as Wayne Valliere paddled into the starlit night aboard his torch-laden birchbark canoe equipped with a handmade spear. One of ...