As Elaine McCloud of the Chehalis Tribe watched canoes arrive on the shores of the Swinomish Tribe’s Swadabs Park on Monday, she talked about how the annual Canoe Journey is like a cultural lesson for ...

A North Carolina curator is preserving Native American dugout canoes — one nearly 2,000 years old — using a spray bottle of water, tissue paper and tweezers. Otherwise, sugar crystals encrusted on the ...

Wayne Valliere, an artist-in-residence at Northwestern University and one of only a handful of Native birchbark canoe builders left in the U.S., constructs an elaborate 16-foot canoe. ICE took her ...

LAKE WACCAMAW, N.C. -- A 1,000-year-old Waccamaw Indian dug-out canoe was pulled from Lake Waccamaw near Wilmington Wednesday after three teens discovered it while spending a fun day outside. The ...

SALISH SEA — Dozens of tents lined the beach Sunday in Lummi Nation, the smell of saltwater and seaweed wafting off the waves. Members of Coast Salish tribes roused from their sleeping bags around 9 a ...

Wisconsin historians recently announced the discovery of at least 11 ancient canoes in a Badger State lake, including one boat that dates to 2500 B.C. The findings were announced in a press release by ...

Michaela Topham, a senior studying anthropology at Franklin Pierce, poses next to a pair of canoes that were recently carbon-dated thanks to a grant from her senior thesis. Credit: Hannah Schroeder ...

FORKS — The Viola canoe has been returned to its homeland after 50 years. In the culture of the Hoh, Quileute and other Northwest Tribes the significance of the cedar canoe is immeasurable. Since long ...

MADISON, WISCONSIN—According to a statement released by the Wisconsin Historical Society, a second ancient canoe has been recovered from Lake Mendota. Last year, a 1,200-year-old canoe was discovered ...

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Coast Salish water warriors aboard a traditional Nisqually canoe paddle into the Port of Tacoma in an effort to block the MV Cape Orlando from leaving the port, on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. Logan Price A ...