A LSU student is using her video game design and preservation expertise to bring modern access to an ancient canoe.

A modern Stone-Age family used rock to live in, eat from, sleep on, write on . . . and, well, for almost anything that a dinosaur couldn’t be used for. So why not use it to build a canoe, too, and ...

Correction: The original article stated Maxwell Armenta graduated in June. In fact, Armenta is a rising fifth-year student. Civil engineering students will paddle in the waters of Marina del Rey in ...

"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

Following the arrival of Europeans on the Northwest Coast, the ancient First Nations arts of canoe design and navigation quickly went into decline, and for decades were nearly lost. In the excerpt ...