In the pages of that magazine, she found someone with her same name — Angelique Merasty, a world renowned birch bark biter. Merasty was looking for someone to pass her craft on to in her later ...

INDIAN ISLAND, Maine -- Watched by a dozen members of the Penobscot Indian tribe, Steve Cayard plunged a pair of tongs into a steaming vat of boiling water and extracted a 4-foot-long cedar slat ...

Such "pieced" bark requires double-stitch sewing to the bottom strip, which is very time consuming. Thus the harvest of large birch by the dominant society hastened the decline of the craft - one ...

He now has one of the few birch bark canoes to grace Lake of the Woods in the past century. "It's kind of a craft of love," said Stammen, whose family has an island cabin on this northernmost ...

He now has one of the few birch bark canoes to grace Lake of the Woods in the past century. "It's kind of a craft of love," said Stammen, whose family has an island cabin on this northernmost ...

Byers, a descendant of the Canadian aboriginal group Métis, is part of a movement to revive a craft once key to traveling the Great Lakes region. The birch bark canoe was once a valuable means of ...

Exhibition of the unique Russian craft using birch bark, called Beresta, showcases everything from 3D paintings to utensils 'Beresta' is a well-known Russian craft inspired by the birch tree.

For more than 30 years, Phillips, a member of the Penobscot Nation who grew up on Indian Island, has been making birch-bark moose calls in his basement ... Phillips lets himself become completely ...

CTV National News: An ancient tradition Todd Battis has the story of one man's mission to keep an ancient tradition afloat before it becomes a lost art.

A chance encounter with a magazine at a post office in Uranium City, Sask., led Angelique Merasty Levac to a life she never expected, as one of the most celebrated birch bark biters in the world.