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Nate Johnson

Northhome, MN
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Nate Johnson lives in northern Minnesota.  He teaches various craft classes, including hide tanning, birch bark canoe building, snowshoe making, basketry, and others.  He also makes and sells knives and tools, harvests wild rice, eats plants and wild animals, stitches up some homemade clothing now and then, and wonders when he will pick up that fiddle.

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Current Courses Offered by Nate Johnson

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Craft a Custom Crooked Knife

The crooked knife, also known as the mocotaugan (Cree) or waagikomaan (Anishinaabe), has an…
Fri, Nov 21st, 2025
9am-5pm
Instructor: Nate Johnson
Teaser image for Sewing with Fur and Leather: Beaver Fur Mittens

Sewing with Fur and Leather: Beaver Fur Mittens

Sew your own pair of beaver fur mittens and never have cold hands again! Hand-stitched with a…
Sat, Nov 22nd, 2025  –  Sun, Nov 23rd, 2025
9am-5pm each day
Instructor: Nate Johnson

Past Courses Offered by Nate Johnson

Birding Basics

Brain Tanning Deer Skins

Cedar Bentwood Boxes

Field Botany

Making the Mocotaugan: Forge & Craft a Crooked Knife

Tanning Tools: Make Your Own Dry Scraper

Traditional Hide Tanning

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