Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members will cut down a 165-foot western cedar today to be carved into an ocean-going ceremonial canoe. Tribal Executive Director John Miller said the 10-foot diameter tree ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...