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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SEATTLE — Crews will soon break ground on a canoe carving house as part of the Northwest Native Canoe Center. On Friday, stakeholders were able to take a closer look at the space that will eventually ...

EDMONDS, Wash. -- Students are helping carve new life into a 300- to 400-year-old Alaskan cedar at Edmonds Community College. “It is powerful to take that life of the tree that is so old and have the ...

Saaduuts chip away at a large cedar trunk, on the shore of Seattle’s Lake Union. He has spent the past 15 years hand carving canoes in the traditional Native American style. “I’m a Tsimshian-Haida ...

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 ...