MOORHEAD-Denise Lajimodiere is resurrecting a dying art. "It died out in my tribe," the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa member said. "It's almost a lost traditional art." About eight years ago, the ...
The Native American art of birch bark biting requires practitioners to envision a design while biting down on a folded strip of thin, pliable tree bark. Birch bark biters punch small holes in the bark ...
Angelique Merasty Levac, left, and her granddaughter, Mercedez Angelique Levac, show off some of their birch bark biting art — and Levac's granddaughter, whom she calls A chance encounter with a ...
Pat Bruderer's mind goes blank when she buries her teeth into her art. That's because her canvas and design implements are unconventional: she creates intricate designs on birchbark by biting ...
Award-winning poet and birch bark biting artist, Denise Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe) will present a poetry reading and talk about the art of birch bark biting or mazinibakajige (“marks ...
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A dynamic duo with generations of knowledge in birchbark crafts are doing their part to keep the tradition alive in northern Sask. Teresa and Rosie McLeod from Stanley Mission, Sask., travel to ...
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A chance encounter with a magazine at a post office in Uranium City, Sask., led Angelique Merasty Levac to a life she never expected, as one of the most celebrated birch bark biters in the world. In ...
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