Although the birch-bark canoe today has been supplanted by ... and Indians can point to a pile of rocks on one of the Apostle islands, saying these were the ones he used in weighting down the ...

Helen Peltier, who is Anishinaabe from Fort William First Nation, has reconnected to her culture and community through the humble birch bark tree. For Anishinaabe people, the birch tree is a ...