A Warrior and Leader, Big Bear a Spokesman
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Saskatchewan Indian, vol. 3, no. 6, August 1973, p. 16
Description
Cree leader honoured at a ceremony at Fort Pitt, Saskatchewan on July 25, 1973.
Discusses the history of the fur trade in the Northwest Territories and contemporary trapping practices, and gives detailed instructions for making snowshoes, kamiks, spruce canoes, and trap sets and preparing and eating country food.
Historical note:
History Thesis (MA) -- College of William & Mary of Virginia, 1982.
Historical note:
A zareba is an encampment used as a base of attack and defense.Historical note:
A zareba is a stockade made of bushes: an outdoor enclosure, especially one made of thorn bushes and used as protection around a campsite or village.