The Cree artist says birch bark has been used by Indigenous peoples to build canoes, harvest birch water, and to wrap both babies and the dead. An art form normally practised by women, ...

A birchbark canoe built with just an axe and a traditional, crooked knife is now on display at a museum in northern Québec. Josie Cox, an artisan and Cree culture teacher from Chisasibi, Que ...