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Nate Johnson

Bemidji, MN
North House Folk School photo of instructor, Nate Johnson

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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Past Courses Offered by Nate Johnson

Birding Basics

Black Ash Pack Baskets

Brain Tanning Deer Skins

Cedar Bentwood Boxes

Craft a Custom Crooked Knife

Field Botany

Making the Mocotaugan: Forge & Craft a Crooked Knife

Sewing with Fur and Leather: Beaver Fur Mittens

Tanning Tools: Make Your Own Dry Scraper

Traditional Hide Tanning