Paper birch, though, is so much more. According to the National Park Service, there is evidence of the trees being used by ...

Editor's Note: This column first appeared in the York Weekly in 2013. Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine – One of the oldest-known examples of a Native American birch-bark canoe is on display at a museum in Maine, where indigenous tribes have used them for thousands of years. The canoe ...

MOORHEAD-Denise Lajimodiere is resurrecting a dying art. "It died out in my tribe," the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member said. "It's almost a lost traditional art." About eight years ago, the ...

NORTHWEST ANGLE, Minn. -- When a tribal elder on Lake of the Woods saw the birch bark canoe Talon Stammen was building, the native was quick with a quip. "You know they make those in Fiberglas now," ...

The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...

Dan Blessing and Marc VanGrinsven’s 4,000 mile journey from Lake Superior to the Pacific Ocean in a homemade birch-bark canoe. Marc and I were leading 22-day Outward Bound trips when we started ...

The bark of white birch is the traditional sheath material of Scandinavia. The method described in this chapter is a slick way to make a quickie sheath for anything: knife, scissors, chisel, or ...