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 ...

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.

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.

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.

KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- A Haida war canoe made by Native students at a Seattle school has arrived in Hydaburg. Students and teachers from the Washington school were in the southeast Alaska town over the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...