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  1. Joe tahkahikew

    Stone for sharpening knives & axes with in UK

    I seen another post where a guy was selling Japanese sharpening stones for some bucks. That made me wonder if there are good stones in UK for this purpose. I saw a couple of places where you could get good stone for sharpening tools in UK. I also saw wheel shaped things made from stone with...
  2. Joe tahkahikew

    Fall Moose Hunt our way ( Nehiraw)/Cree in Norther Canada

    Someone suggested you may like to watch this video of a group of us (but not from our area), camping trip for moose hunt before winter. A few things this film shows is the way we - and our family hunt and live in the bush. 1. Cutting,splitting meat for smoke/air drying. 2. We generally...
  3. Joe tahkahikew

    German Canoeists loose canoe on Hayes river.

    This is what happens when you don't set off with good equipment and knowledge maybe. But they managed to walk the few miles out which is quite difficult. Never loose your canoe in summer or dogs in winter...
  4. Joe tahkahikew

    Rip My Canoe Kit apart

    Following on from a previous post with the same title and some of you asked me if I would do the same. This would be a reasonable estimate of what myself and my partner would carry on a 16 day canoe trip to a hunting cabin and back on the Winagaiskikimi River which we do normally after...
  5. Joe tahkahikew

    We have no word for thank you

    http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=127643&page=2 The subject of swearing in Cree came up. Cree has no swear words like many northern Canadian languages, which seems to surprise many whites and non indians. Today I was talking to a Bulgarian and they said their word for thank...
  6. Joe tahkahikew

    How many of you work in the countryside?

    Hello I was just wondering how many of you work in the outdoors - doesn't have to be all the time but say over 50% of the time? Just curious as I'm out pretty much out all the time back home and am surprised by the number of people in the UK who work only indoors.
  7. Joe tahkahikew

    Out with the gamekeeper - at night

    It started with a drink in the 'pub'. A local youth hears my daughter talk to me in Cree. The youth thinks I'm Arabic, and says to his mates something along the lines of; "Hu, I didn't think arabs drank.." My daughter put him right and he came over and apologised. Turns out his dad, who...
  8. Joe tahkahikew

    Good Afternoon

    Interesting web site. I'm from Canada, and I'm Woods Cree and am visiting some friends here in England. One of them showed me the site so I join. I spend all my life in the outdoors - except school!