FIRST NATION

[KIMBOKO]

I have read that several contributors are members of re-enactment groups does anyone want to share there particular interest?.

As most of the renewed interest in bushcraft seems to have come over from North American Indian tradition is anyone a member of a reenactment group of Indians?. I ask, as I am interested. If any one knows of a group or has details, please contact me.

 

[Gary]

Kimboko I have done both Dark age re-enactment and 1840's fur trade - you can do native american there. I'm currently exploring American civil war.

But if you want to have real fun look at a group called Old England New France they re-enact the period covered by Last of the Mohican's and their Indians get to fight as well as to re-enact the living history skills.

Happy hunting.

 

[Carcajou Garou]

Not part of a re-enactment, I am Metis/Mohawk

 

[Roving Rich]

:notworthy
Its an honour to meet you Carcajou. Is there still a tradition of these core skills among your people ? We have much to relearn, skills that have been lost in thsi "civilisation"
Cheers
Rich

 

[Carcajou Garou]

My people the Iroquois of the Six Nations have long held on to our language and traditions and skills for the most part, we are a very proud people. Some other Nations were not so lucky and unfortunately have lost a measure of their knowledge of our mother the earth. Different Nations have different levels of relationship with our mother. There is a reasurgence of learning culture, language, religion and old ways but it will take time. Some of us have never lost our bond with nature and have had elders that took great pains to keep our culture alive till we realized that we needed it again. It will take time and dedicated teachings by traditional elders to re-assert our identity. As a whole our peoples have the need to relearn the old skills, it will be easier for us as our memory is not so far and we are a hard people used to hard life. We are only truly free as a part of our nature given to us by the Creator.
It is an honour to meet you Roving Rich.

 

[ChrisKavanaugh]

I have Choctaw ancestry, one of the 5 civilized tribes sent to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. The irony is we wound up sitting on all that oil and anyone who could prove ancestry got on the tribal rolls for the M-O-N-E-Y. If black America ever gets compensation for slavery I am going to have a good laugh at all the new brothers. I wound up with a degree in archaeology and have watched the various 'First Nations' with a mixture of pride and sadness. Indegenous cultures worldwide are under horrific assault from globalizationand resource exploitation. And, we are all in our way both victim and part of the problem. I was once on an excavation across from the present Reagan Library. At the time it was a lovely oak studded cattleranch. today it is a scab of pink stuccoed housing tracts. I, being the only white anglo-saxon male was catching hell for all the sins of history. My assailants were a swedish student and a chumash site monitor. The last hereditary chief also was sitting there, face buried in laughter at what was coming. I finally explained to the svenska maid that those bad ol' 7th cavalrymen were almost all recent european immigrants from Ireland, germany and SWEDEN! Then I proudly produced my own tribal roll document. Chief took it and looked at his assistant. " OH,My,GOD! Hey I'apesh, Chris is 1/4 Choctaw. Your what? 1/8 chumash and the rest mexican? Then he got very serious. " You know, a long,long time ago all peoples lived in harmony with our mother. I've seen the beautifull paintings of horses and bulls in France. I am going to drive home tonight in my Ford Mustang, so who is walking the right path here, truly?" There is a treasure of information out there, and you can find it from all cultures. I do think buckskins are more comfortable than blue woad body paint though

 

[Carcajou Garou]

If you are interested in First Nation "regalia' and the making of such, I could if it is permitted, post pictures of some pieces that I make; choker, breast plates. I am in the process of assembling a regalia of an Mohawk warrior circa 1790's it takes time as I have to research each item with several elders as this particular warrior was part of a particular society in his clan.
P.S. where could I post the pictures, I have to get my son who computer able to do such things, to much time in the bush not enoufg in school.

 

[bushwacker bob]

Exellent suggestion carcajou, I have been wanting to make some beadwork for a while as I think it would look good on a knife sheath.any pictures would be appreciated as I have started to collect beads for the purpose. Start a new thread in the crafts and skills section