More than 100 years ago, when he was just 10 years old, Roy A. Peratrovich Jr.’s grandfather, Andrew Wanamaker, traveled the 200 miles from Sitka to Ketchikan in a war canoe. He, his father, and ...

To transform a hollowed-out log into a dugout canoe requires more than expert carving — it requires steam, and lots of it. Earlier this week the skies over Eagle Beach in Sitka were filled with smoke ...

This award-winning article has been placed in front of the Juneau Empire’s paywall. ANGOON — Dozens of small hands and one large pair held a firm grip on the 30-foot-long dugout canoe they pushed down ...

Doug Chilton made cuts along the length of the canoe with a chain saw, axed out the splintering chunks, then steamed the vessel to curve up the ends Mark Kelly / Sealaska Heritage Institute A canoe ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canoe leader Donna Johns helps Tlingit young people reconnect with canoe culture. She was among the group that made a 3-day canoe ...

What began as a 6,300-kilogram western red cedar on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska is now a nine-metre dugout canoe set afloat for the first time this past weekend on Pine Lake, Yukon. The creation ...

The collection consists of five (5) paintings of dugout canoes held by the Department of Anthropology object collections. Three drawings are of a Tlingit canoe (see USNM Number E168115). The catalog ...

As the pile of wood chips grows on the ground, the smell of cedar fills the air in a tent in Haines Junction. Alaskan Tlingit master carver Wayne Price and his apprentices are transforming a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Commander of Navy Region Northwest Rear Adm. Mark Sucato is gifted a canoe paddle by ...