Contemporary Rendezvous Reenactors with Vincent Grant Sr.

They traded for tobacco and but all the other things I mentioned you know and iron knives and thumb Hawk heads and axe heads and cooking kettles and whatnot so it was quite a quite a quite a little deal - it hit rendezvous so now we’ve got kind of got a reenactment group that I belong to mostly Minnesota crews we had a few from North Dakota but mostly Minnesota so we have rendezvous was like eight or nine of them here let me go ahead and have a weekend three days four days rendezvous and then they have a Northwest area rendezvous and it’s seven or nine states up in the north-central part there and you have a nine day Running Room so you go in and on a Friday and then you’re all that dirt all the week til the next Sunday and all the different clubs get together and put on competitions and exhibitions and like that you know and so it’s quite an interesting day the owner you know so I brought some stuff like I showed you that yeah knew you were that big fat for it was it only be able to they trap for coyotes and Fox and raccoons mink they brought buffalo hides and deer hides elk hides whatever they could get a hold of they brought it all into the trade at all and they were done as they hunted you know they did take what they needed from the animal or what they could use it take all the meat horns and hooves and bones and sinew and everything else and they used that’s what they had to use to that but they took you know that was my main trade