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," ...

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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 ...

If Brian Garhofer has his way, Two Harbors soon could become a major player in the cosmetic, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical industries. Garhofer plans to continue an innovative process that was ...

Richard Moore‘s cityscape photographs could not be described as psychedelic but nonetheless call to mind the visual legerdemain that Aldous Huxley detailed in his seminal 1954 book, The Doors of ...