LAPWAI, Idaho (AP) - Wood chips were flying as fourth- and fifth-grade Lapwai Elementary students helped carve a traditional canoe. Nez Perce Tribe member Julian Matthews organized the evening carving ...

Project Education: Edutopia, a partnership between WRAL-TV and the George Lucas Educational Foundation, shows how a carving project taught history and Native American culture to Seattle students.

SEATTLE – The Seattle Design Commission is working to develop the Northwest Native Canoe Center in Lake Union Park. Still in its early design phase, the center would consist of two buildings near the ...

In Hawai’i, the art of carving outrigger canoes has traditionally been a male pursuit. Many women have captained and paddled the canoes, but few have learned to build them—an undertaking that requires ...

In a carving shed in Sitka National Historical Park, a team of five well-known carvers are continuing, and reviving, an art practiced since time immemorial — carving a wooden dugout canoe from the ...

As one of the few people in Florida who can carve a functional canoe from a cypress tree, Seminole artist Pedro O. Zepeda feels a sense of responsibility when he talks to people about his Native ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. – As the drums sounded, dancers dressed in traditional costumes performed for a crowd of more than 200 people all craning to see along the Potomac River Saturday. It was part of a ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Visitors to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture over the last couple of months might've noticed a group of people carving canoes out of two one hundred year old cedar logs.

Join us for an EPIC 3-day canoe camping trip in Algonquin Provincial Park, where we explore the beauty of the fall foliage. During the trip, we each completed projects: one of us carved a walnut spoon ...

More than 150 years after Seattle’s government tried to ban Native residents and more than 50 years after Native activists embarked on a campaign to regain waterfront access in the city, a space ...

The ax falls time and again, kicking up the cedar-smelling chips. Passersby pause to watch through the front window of Fort Lauderdale’s Upper Room Art Gallery, witnessing a Seminole dugout canoe come ...