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 ...

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 ...

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.

He is a weaver of stories and teller of jokes, a singer of songs, a teacher who is always learning from his students. He also is a carver of huge, solid cedar canoes. Robert Peele, a 52-year-old ...

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.

On a rainy day three years ago, a group of students, teachers and volunteers faced a challenging project: how to transform a 14,000-pound tree into a smooth, 16-person Native Alaskan canoe. Yesterday, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

It's a Kootenai canoe, a boat as native to these waters as the cedar it's made from. &#8220I always wanted to paddle one, here in its home range," Morley said. Problem was, all the remaining Kootenai ...

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 ...