Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members will cut down a 165-foot western cedar today to be carved into an ocean-going ceremonial canoe. Tribal Executive Director John Miller said the 10-foot diameter tree ...

Flooded roads, rescues, and evacuation notices have hit parts of the North Sound. by Ryan Yamamoto EDMONDS, Wash. -- Students are helping carve new life into a 300- to 400-year-old Alaskan cedar at ...

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 ...

Thirteen years ago, master carver Wayne Price of Haines had a vision in a sweat lodge. “The Creator told me to create a healing dugout and a healing totem,” he said. He gestured to the wood chips ...

A canoe built using traditional Micronesian techniques has made its maiden voyage up the River Foyle. The 8ft (2.34m) canoe was made from a tree felled at the Brook Hall Estate in Londonderry during a ...

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 ...

Monty Charlie greets them with his shirt off, sweat on his brow and a chisel in his hand. Laughing as they get out of the car on this warm February day, Stillaguamish tribal members Shawn Yanity and ...

Friday, Earth day, a handful of archivists, fishing experts and environmentalists stood under a white tent. At the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture’s outdoor amphitheater stage, log shavings from ...

Willison Yarofaitir, seated in a 13-foot canoe in the middle of the River Foyle in Ireland, raised a paddle above his head, celebrating on July 11 a momentous voyage that began over 7,500 miles away ...