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Moccasins?
mullet:
Wayne, I can't find anything up here but snow and ice. I'm in Flin Flon but driving 120 Klm a day to Sherridon. I'm staying on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
stickbender:
Man, you are in some prime BIG Deer habitat there. And some BIG bears. Saskatchewan has some definite trophy animals!
Were the Moccasins expensive? You need to make a couple of Friends there. Man, don't they have anything closer to the job site?
Seems like you had to do a bunch of driving up there the last time. Don't they do this in the Summer? Are there any pawn, or thrift stores up there? With your luck you could find an English long bow up there, signed by ol Robin his own self! ;D Watch out for Moose eh. ;)
Wayne
TRACY:
You ought to be able to cut some rug in style with those mocs, very nice.
Diligence:
Just have to add.....it's really funny reading what you "southern" folk think about Northern Saskatchewan.....no igloos, whale blubber or Inuits here. In fact, it's still about another 650 miles North to the Artic Circle.....
Mullet - you probably bumped into the Dene' (pronounced Den-aay) people otherwise known as Chipewyan, rather than the Inuit. If they told you they were Inuit, they were pulling your leg.
Great leatherwork too - some of that tanned moose hide will last forever. All the oldtimers that I know just buy those little "rubbers" for your shoes and wear them over the leather to keep the soles dry when the ground is wet....might not be primitive, but it's sure common. For the "dancing moccasins" the old timers used to sew rough cotton cloth (duck cotton) to them to make leggings and turn them into something more suitable for walking around the bush.
Cheers,
D
El Destructo:
Dene'....thats dem Chippewa....or da Ojibwe....same Tribe....thats my Ancestors too....
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