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Wild rice and still collected. Much nicer than white rice. Corn used to be planted but were too far north. I'm not sure of all English names but Arrowhead, called wild potato I still collect and cook when out for longer time. Bugleweed, Milkweed, Woodbine stalks, Bulrush roots, Basswood...

[/URL][/IMG] Here we show a visitor how to make bannock - bread on a stick. Being shown by Mrs T'anishwa who has spent almost all her life living in the forest and is also an excellent cook and can shoot/trap better than many men.

The way we make bread when out in the bush or forest is to wrap dough around the end of a stick and bake it over the fire. Only takes few minutes.

Very interesting but how relevant is it to making fire outside? You need more bits of kit and you need to keep the jute dry - and the dust!! And a couple of planks of wood.

You can use just about any axe for throwing. We do throwing when we have our annual traditional games events in summer.

All I meant is that we carry what we need on us anyways. When I helped on guiding & hunting trips for european & american folk from towns many were nervous about being in the bush maybe a hundred or so miles from anyone else. Sometimes they would talk about their survival kits, with little...

Second house built much like we build our hunting cabins for winter. Don't need as many tools, just saw, axe and a chainsaw and plenty moss for chinking gaps. We never really had glass windows and smoke goes through the roof, although many of us use stove + pipe fire. Floor of spruce/cedar...

/Well there aint no rabbits out here that live in holes like yours. But its sometimes possible to fall into hole in snow if lots of rocks. I never heard of anyone breaking ankle doing that tho and I'd guess to fracture leg that bad you'd need pretty violent accident maybe. But := When...

Head-Smashed-in-Buffalo-Jump is a well visited place in Alberta. A cliff over which many thousands of buffalo were driven in old times to kill them for food. A translation from the Blackfoot language. We have numerous places which English might find unusual, none of them on maps in english...

Dave a poster here has a good signature line on his posts which explain why things are like this. Look at his signature. Anyway I've been told that this is "way off thread" by one of our young people and that it'll "get pulled" - whatever that means. Enju!

I can only speak about what I know. I did sleep out on the North York Moors with my friend and some others. I wasn't concerned and neither were they. Over here when I used to be involved in guiding white folk I noticed many were nervous when in the bush but I didn't want to trouble them about...

I'm afraid it is not as simple as that boatman. The government places many restrictions and rules on both our land use, traditions, our hunting and so on. The state boarding system had a part but not necessarily a major part up north. There are plenty of older people here who never had...

I hope my replies are suitable and I do not offend.

Of course we take care not to attract unwanted critters into our camps but not out of fear or worrying. Like driving car with seatbelt. Sensible but don't mean your scared of crashing does it? I've never seen or heard anyone standing on a snake. They hear you long before you do that. I've...

its funny, I can't think any of us worried about being in the bush. Bear, fox, wolf, northern rattlesnake or other animals we see of little matter when we are out in the bush (forest). Like many of my fellow first nations I love the sound, sights and smell of what you guys call the wilderness...

This is interesting. I wondered why you would do such a thing, but now I think I know it is because many people in your countries can't track maybe? In winter we leave easy tracks in snow and our camp fires can maybe seen long distance. In summer it is very easy to follow families on the move...

Our children are allowed to handle knives and axes as soon as they are able to pick them up (but not babies). We don't teach them same as you teach. They learn by doing, so often will imitate adults. My daughter could skin fox or other small animal by the time she eight or nine. Most sons...

Hey I wasn't getting at you and I didn't mean to insult you. The film you made a link to just showed rather crude looking huts to me and there were comments about how the door and bad design or construction method caused these huts to be too cold for the folk to stay there. Anglos believe that...

Thank you for your thoughtful words Mary.

Maybe it would be better if elephant buried the archeologists. I wonder how many archeologists or people who are claiming they are experimental archeologists have any real experience at building or making anything for a living? If they have not then maybe no surprise their experiments show...