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I agree and I've met some nice Non 1st nation people, including English folk sharing our land with us!!

So land must make people rich? It doesn't make us rich, nor do most hunters or non hunting 1st nations folk up here want to get rich - just to live.. When we were encouraged to sign government treaties we were promised we could carry on and hunt as we always had. (Hunting = forest) No one...

Sorry for the delay in answering. The forest is mostly replanted with commercial trees or left to regenerate. Cattle of the kind they have further south would need grass to eat. But it gets too cold here for grass to grow outside of summer and the cattle would freeze to death in our winters -...

Much of the forests to the east have been logged out for good timber. The big birch we used to for canoes has mostly gone the way of all gone for paper pulp or other uses. Now if you want big sheets of knot free birch you have to search really hard and it is difficult to get. Plenty though I...

That is why we, in a land of many trees avoid camping underneath them or check very, very carefully for dead fall trees or widow-makers. I don't know if many folk up here have heard of Ray Mears, but good birch bark is getting hard to find many people like making old time stuff with it.

Well, good identified. I'd not thought maybe you had ravens. I heard one raven in England but he sounded a little bit different from our birds. He's good for telling us where the animals are in winter - they follow them and are always noisey!! Do I know what a haggis is? I had one for...

I have heard some deer make this kind of noise sometimes during breeding seasons.

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...

Feather sticks - now theres a thing. We had a guy on a trip a few years back and he showed us how to do a feather stick and proceeded to tell us that it was an 'injun' trick. Well now there's a thing. Been an 'injun' all my life and almost all of it in the bush I never seen any 'injun' up...

Many of your dogs are too small to hunt game. But I guess you have them as pets? I'm not sure of the English names, but we have two types. One for sledge in winter 0 a bit like huskey/wolf cross breed. Some of us also have fast big hunting dogs used for chasing bear, and similar big...

Those quail seem really small birds. Your shotgun cartridges must cost more than the bird is worth. Do you eat them??

I'm curious just how useful a bandage and tourniquet will be in the case of terrorist attack? The ones we hear about involve many injuries and dead - such as the ones in London.

I don't know where the book is about but we have big herds of Caribou across the Barrens and of course across much of norhern caribou including woodland caribou further west.

Tansi/Wadjii It happens up here too. 3 people a couple of them English. Come here, think they can live on the the Barrens, the land we call the place of the little sticks because the trees are so small. We've passed their graves several times. They starved to death within their first winter...

Interesting you having a go fella You might want to check out how we build houses from forest trees, mostly axe and chainsaw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfwCj34775g I'm not sure whether this video is full length but if you can find full length film you'll see how we build our...

We make our floors in camp from cedar or spruce like he did. No need to carry kit or equipment as much is in the forest already.

With many many millions of mozzies, blackfly, deer fly and other biting bugs up here that machine will have its work cut out. I can be of not help withwhat caused the reaction in the picture. Luckily we don't get probelms with bites.

Any stone which doesn't soak up water should do. We never, ever take stones from river for this. You have a common stone in UK which I think was called sand stone. I tried this but sometimes it burst, some times no. different types and densities I guess. Heavier the type of stone the...

We always washed or swam in the rivers or lakes. Bit harder in winter after the freeze up!! Cold water is good for body, spirit and heart. Sometimes ne camp we stayed had steel oil drums. We filled those with water and left them in sun to get warm and that makes for nice wash if you like...

That sure looks like a good cabin. I wonder about the boy though. No friends? No one to share thoughts with like boys and girls do. When I was younger I'd spend months paddling and exploring the rivers& lakes to the north of where ever my family were camped. Also many winters season...