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We used to use cloth bag or old thin material - I don't know what you call it but like 'dish cloth' material. Put pine resin in that and put in hot water and heat until it goes like thick soup, then squeeze out into container - ours was birch bark one. Squeezing it out of the bag gets rid of...

80 pounds to buy food every mont?? Thats a lot of food you could by. No bother hunt or gather maybe? In summer we live off the land, eat mostly fish & game. But I know no one up here who lives entirely on own caught food much anymore. We too like tea, coffee, sugar and vegetables and or...

Thats a sure good knife.

You boys sure worry about little stuff. If you look at some of our knives you'd have heart burn.

I must be doing something wrong. I guess nearly every winter I've sucked on snow or ice and drunk freshly melted snow or ice when travelling. ;-)

It sure does look good. How did you decide to mount the blade on the outside of the wood? Most of ours - hand made like yours have the blade sat inside the handle. Where or what did you use for the blade. I have used old metal file. I assume you have no problems with the blade coming off anyways

With animal horn (or bone). You can heat it in water and it will bend really, really well and when it goes cold it goes stiff real easy again but in new shape.

Thanks for that information sir. My friend builds walls from stones and does what is known as hedgelaying. He has some different stone for sharpening tools. One flat stone was sort of brownish yellow, he calls sandstone I think, and he got it from a place where it used to be...

You are good at carving. Have you ever tried making spoons from horn? Thats what we used to use. And animal horn is possible to get very, very thin and easy to bend.

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...

We have watched the winter video last night. We see they use almost the same method to hunt the fish below the ice as we do = and some of the same fish i think. They carry the same knife & axe as we do in winter also and make tools from steel when needed. They also make nice footwear for...

Above the tree line or in wind swept places where the snow drifts the blocks cut real nice with just an ordinary carpenters saw. I was shown how to do this one fall many years ago by two innui hunters we met whilst out in the Northern Territories. They are fine and quiet to sleep in but we...

Dogs need feeding. Need training Takes time but food is free. (Lake trout). Skiddo easy to use, but needs gas - which cost money and breaks down. Don't have to catch food for skiddo.. most use Skiddo now as you can travel further and faster.

Dave, dopn't worry about being called m,oneyaw it just polite way of saying you are not Nehiyawk or Cree!! We do have bad words for Anglos if you wish. I don't know much about Siberian Evenki so I can't comment. Yes, Yesterday when I was younger is the same here too. My grandmother said the...

We make various breads we cook on sticks over fire. Just looking at these interesting versions I am now hungry toddy!

Perhaps you might share with us what you believe is harmony with nature then? But not in your country - maybe in our forests and in Russia where we share mostly the same things. thank yo Oh, dear I see you've answered that question but i canot see how to remove what `i have now done. sorry.

Maybe so, but nothing to stop the people in the cities come here or elsewhere is there? Or do you expect us to thank all the moneyaw who live in cities for their kindness? I never used the word sustainability. `but sustainability is what our life is about. If its not sustainable how come we...

DavO, you make some fair points for a moniyaw ;-) (non speaker of our language), as do Robson Valley and Jan. But let me tell it from where I sit now. For maybe 12 or 13 thousands of years man in Canada has been living up here. Compared with how I see your people live, I think we live far...

If you travel our land we have a couple of places we can find stones to sharpen our tools also.