In February of this year, the red cedar log Steve Brown and his apprentices were working with was full of cracks. By the end of early October it had blossomed into a successful dugout canoe. Sealaska ...

It's a Kootenai canoe, a boat as native to these waters as the cedar it's made from. "I always wanted to paddle one, here in its home range," Morley said. Problem was, all the remaining Kootenai ...

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.

The “littlest canoe carver in the world” carefully sanded a cedar paddle. That’s how Dave Paul described 7-year-old Amelia McConville, who stood as tall as her nearly finished 3½-foot cedar paddle.

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.

PORT ANGELES — Hand-carved cedar canoes — lots of them — will spend 10 days navigating the waters of the North Olympic Peninsula later this week. It all begins Friday with the Tribal Canoe Journey’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the coming years you can expect to see Lake Union bustling with beautiful hand-carved indigenous canoes as construction is slated to begin this year on a new native Canoe Carving House at Lake ...