THE PLAINS –– At the end of the cul-de-sac sits Talcon Quinn's canary yellow ranch, a home that her grandparents built decades ago. It's quiet and unassuming, and thankfully she has known the ...

Wesley Dick can skin a deer in seven minutes. He makes three cuts with a buck knife, in a T-shape across the belly and uses his hands to scrape out the innards. Dick, whose Paiute name Kwassuba-tue ...

A group of students look on attentively as Tsuut'ina elder Larry Mistaken Chief cuts holes into the edges of a fresh deer hide. They're at One Spot Crossing near Bragg Creek, Alta., taking part in a ...

Two-spirit Indigenous youth gathered at a park near Barrie, Ont., last week to learn traditional hide tanning techniques. Niizh Manidook Hide Camp ran Aug. 7-15 and was hosted by Springwater ...

Gesig Isaac, who lives in Toronto and Listuguj in Eastern Quebec, wants to bring back traditional ways of making buckskin in her community. It hasn’t been easy, with tanners few and far between across ...

Hide tanning is a lengthy and physical process. Margaret Douville says there are ‘no shortcuts’ to hide tanning, it takes one full winter. (Sissi De Flaviis/CBC) Moosehide tanning is one of the ...

The spirit of some of Alberta’s oldest art will be on display at the Alberta Craft Discovery Gallery starting April 14 in a dual show by Ruby Sweetman and Amy Malbeuf. The Art of Hide Tanning: ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) - For 50 years, the Native Art Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has been uniting artists from across the state with one simple goal: to expand and preserve the genre ...

When students use brains in chemistry class, they’re not usually using brain-puree like finger paint. “I need to forewarn you that if you are queasy with fleshing hides, you don’t like blended up ...