Minnesota wild rice bill heard March 10 would name psín and manoomin and recognize wild rice’s right to exist, citing treaty ...

From March 16 to 20, families are invited to journey back to Wendake in 1649 during Adventures in Time Travel at Sainte-Marie ...

Back in the 19303, Thomas Hart Benton boasted that his pictures—like those of his fellow Midwesterners Grant Wood and John Steuart Curry—were “illustrative, storytelling and popular in content, or so ...

Anyone who knows anything about boats—specifically canoes or kayaks—knows the name Old Town. The watercraft brand has been around since the 1800s, when it first started churning out traditional wood ...

When you're swaying in a beachside hammock on a lazy summer day, take a moment to thank the Indigenous cultures that invented it. Native to South America and the Caribbean, hammocks were traditionally ...

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, ...

A class on the assembly of a wooden canoe at the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians' community center in Escanaba brought together many hands. (R. R. Branstrom | Daily Press) ESCANABA — A ...

A white birch tree with a birchbark basket of flowers nestled in it. (Karen Wils photo) ESCANABA — Two country cousins stand by the river. They are tall, strong and handsome and have called Upper ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A birchbark canoe sits in the foreground of the Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation exhibition at the Detroit Institute ...

Artist Ramon Byrne (front) and sculptor Rude Calderon pause while installing canoe sculptures near The Fox & The Grouse apartments. Photo by Pat Thompson Editor’s note: This article was written by Pat ...

Some places are defined by the people who pass through them. In Thunder Bay, they’ve come for centuries: voyageurs paddling canoes across Lake Superior, traders hauling furs to the coast, and a young ...

In 1976 the Meeker County Historical Society embarked on a project for the bicentennial. The project was to build a 1860s stockade in Forest City showing the life pioneers lived at that time. The ...