Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only basket weavers left in the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, holds a piece of river cane in ...

It had been more than 100 years since a Catawba Indian had woven a basket from river cane. Teresa Dunlap, a cultural class specialist at the Catawba Reservation in Rock Hill, S.C, proudly held up a ...

ST. MARY PARISH, LA (WVUE) - The cane baskets that are created by Louisiana's Chitimacha tribe are considered some of the finest examples of Native American basket weaving. But the baskets also played ...

John Paul Darden, a member of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana in St. Mary Parish, prepares a stalk of river cane for basket-making. Specialists with the Plant Materials Center in Golden Meadow are ...

Bruno Sagrera, a sixth generation Choctaw farmer is propagating river cane to help bring it back on his urban farm in Abbeville, LA. (March 15, 2024) Rose Fisher Greer and her daughter are the only ...

River cane is one of only three bamboos native to North America, but now there is little of it left. The USDA estimates that the country has lost 98% of its river cane habitat since European ...