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 ...

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 ...

Students at Winnipeg's Oakenwald School literally sank their teeth into learning about Indigenous tradition this week, as Cree artist Pat Bruderer spent three days showing kindergarten to Grade 6 ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

Growing up in South Korea, Sophia Kim would walk by a long row of birch trees on her way to school that still sticks with her today. “I was mesmerized by them: they seemed to talk to me,” says the now ...

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Pat Kruse is a birchbark and quill artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. Working with ...

LANSING — When Tom Byers first laid eyes on a birch bark canoe, it wasn’t what he saw that captivated him most. It was what he heard. “I hesitate to say the canoe spoke to me, but that’s what happened ...

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FAIRBANKS — When it came time to launch the birch bark canoe he and six students had spent more than a week building this summer, Randy Brown wasn’t about to take any chances. “We probably shouldn’t ...

Artist Tao Dandan works on a birch bark production in Heihe, Heilongjiang province, on Dec 7, 2015. [PHOTO BY QIU QILONG/FOR CHINA DAILY] HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is ...