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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...

If you spend time in the woods or open country it is good to get accustomed to using only the material at hand. My father when he went on hunting trips by canoe or dog team always taught us to use the materials we could find. That way you learn where to look for dry wood to burn and find the...

We use Birch, its widely available up here, also baswood when we get it - I think this is your Lime and western Red Cedar. Cherry and other very hard woods are heavy and no good for long paddling days. Pine isn't too good if its grown in good ground further south as it is often fast growing...

Pine tar is what we used long time ago. I noticed old fisherman's ropes on the east coast of Yorkshire were dipped in boiled liquid which was I recall boiled tar. I guess mostly gone now and nylon used.

I wonder how the sturgeon got into an English pond? Must be hard for fish which spends its life in sea to get to a pond. I understand Burbot which looks like our mískwetatê is not longer found in your waters for long time. Neither fish are good to eat. Give to dogs.

Yes but only in winter! I don't use dogs now only sometimes, but skidoo is new dog when reliable.