MOORHEAD--Denise Lajimodiere is resurrecting a dying art."It died out in my tribe," the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member said. "It's almost a lost traditional art."About eight years ago, ...

Most scholars generally agree with the 19th-century artist George Catlin that the Ojibwe more than any other people raised canoe-building to a fine art. Although the birch-bark canoe today has ...

How Indigenous artists are reinvigorating the art of birch bark biting. August 30, 2021 More than ... Ojibwe, Pottawatomi, Abenaki, Odawa, Chippewa and some groups of Cree.

Pat Kruse is a birchbark artist who lives on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservation. ... Birch Bark Artist. 02/15/2022 ... Working with birchbark for over 30 years he creates beautiful pieces ...

He was hired to do more projects for the City of St. Ignace, and in the mid-’80s he built his first canoe for the Museum of Ojibwa Culture at Old Mission in St. Ignace. “It was kind of a self ...

Award-winning poet and birch bark biting artist, Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) will present a poetry reading and talk about the art of birch bark biting or mazinibakajige ...

The repatriation team that helped recover historic Ojibwe scrolls gathers at the Bay Mills Cultural Center on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, after a ceremony welcoming the scrolls back to their homeland ...

Birch bark canoes, developed by the Ojibwe, built with cedar hulls and a birch ... The voices of Ojibwe writers and artists also have had a deep impact on our state’s writing and art scene, ...

Back in 2011, Grant Goltz of Hackensack and friends showed-off their hand-build birch bark canoes by paddling them into Outing. These practical works of art were a tremendous hit for visitors.

Prior to the 1700s, the Ojibwe (aka Chippwa) people originally lived along the East Coast, slowly migrating westward along the Great Lakes.