Recent content by Joe tahkahikew

I like old things. But where you going to get the fuel to use in the bush?

Its been a long time. Welcome When I first come to the uK i was interested to learn that there is no where more than half a days walk out to a road. Think that was Scotland - 11 miles? And in England even much less. If you can walk out I don't need to fish, trap game, light fires or make...

I see you folk preserve lots of berry and fruit. Up here we don't do so much but we are air drying moose meat and smoking dry fish - I'm don't know what you call this fish in English. we dry or smoke meat by cutting long thin threads of meat and hanging it out of reach of critters. The air...

Many of our women make leather mittens, the backs have traditional patterns and decoration sewed on with colored thread or porcupine quils. They are given to the men for hunting with in winter.

When I came to UK it rained. More than we have here. Here it rains mostly in early autumn until the temperature drops and then only snow. So unlike your land we never get rain in winter. I guess thats why you folk like rubber boots (wellintons?) so much

What are feather sticks?

We have around 1foot snow now, maybe little more snow. Its been like that for many weeks maybe ten or so. But it is also windy so much of our snow gets blown off the land into drifts. and day temperature of -12c, and night down to -19c. No sun for some days now. Much colder weather to come...

Tíswìn slusipa In my youth we slept on many skins including caribou - your reindeer in europe . Good but not if they get wet or damp and dry out in warm. Then they start to smell after some time. It was hard work for the women to get them so good. Ha! I guess we weren't not buying or...

When I was young boy my father took me on a long trip up north over several days travel, somewhere east of the Barren grounds I guess and we came across a camp of Innuit and the women were sewing skins together to make tents. They were using bone needles still and this was in the late 1950's...

Kwé My English isn't that bad. My reply wasn't patronising or dismissive and wasn't meant to be. I said my experience of SOME of those people who spend most of their lives in towns & cities don't always judge size very will in the bush. I don't know where you live. It matters not. I will...

Kwé When I was a guide for hunters and geologists, I noticed some often misgudged the size of things they saw. The lynx they saw in the bush they often told me it was much bigger than any lynx I'd ever see, or the caribou was taller than any man and so on, even in winter with snow on the...

Kwé You could also use what we use for sealing the seams on birchbark canoes and still do for modern canoes when split. Gather spruce gum or pine gum. put in metal bucket. Sometimes it is preferred to heat the gum up directly without water. Better for me if you put in in water over fire...

We make our own using old metal files or old chisels for the blade..

Have you used it yet?

Many of us feed birds and animals when out on the trail. Why not? They too are hungry like us and find hard times like we do sometimes. So why not help each other out? The raven & crows tell us where some animals are so we know. We reward them with left overs. When i was younger iand...