In the basement of a research building at Mission San Luis, remnants of dugout canoes sit on shelves, some protected in white boxes. Thousands of years ago, the canoes would sit on one bank of a ...

SMITHFIELD, Va. — I visited the Isle of Wight County Museum to get the story behind a very rugged-looking canoe from the 1700s. "It is about 12 feet long. So it's rather large. And it is made of wood, ...

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 ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades ...

Sixteen dugout canoes, some older than Egypt’s pyramids, have been identified beneath a Wisconsin lake, turning a quiet Midwestern shoreline into one of North America’s most remarkable archaeological ...

KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers ...

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.

LAKE WACCAMAW, N.C. (WECT/Gray News) – Members of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe worked with a team of archaeologists to bring a nearly 1,000-year-old canoe to the surface of a lake in North Carolina.

BRUNSWICK, Maine — One of the oldest-known Native American birchbark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a ...

BRUNSWICK, Maine — One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a ...