Interview · North Dakota · Vincent Grant Sr. · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 6
Themes: Kinship & family, Food & plants
Learn About questions
What are the different types of bows and arrows used by indigenous peoples on Turtle Island?
What are the various indigenous names for the word “gun”? How are each of those names translated?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a bow and arrow? Of a gun and ammunition?
Learn From questions
What is my family’s experience with hunting?
In what ways does my family provide food, clothing, and shelter?
What animals are typically hunted in my area?
What is my understanding of ecosystems and how hunting helps or harms those systems?
Transcripts
07 Vincent Grant “Bows and Rifles” NDNAEU 2 & 6
Watch this interview on YouTubeA lot of them rather than go out there and make a bunch of noise shooting arrivals and pistols off but most of them in fact irritable and the arrows because this is so much greater this is so much greater than the rifles were she’s got to spring in here someplace but they carried what was in the arrows and they would use this being so much quieter and you can go pick up the arrows use a p-n you shoot the rifle one time here bullets going I’m gonna find it so they use a lot of them carry bows and used them quite extensively to mean hunting weapon and like I said real nice and quiet yeah you could reuse your ammo that’s one of the things he would he stuck to there’s a all the guns that they made were st.Lewis Hawkins it’s a hot gun 50 caliber Hawking rifle okay the thing is about fished all the sights probably bought this for down from the barrel alright in order to get one of those rifles there was third stackin beaver pelts one on top the other until it reached the top sight now you’d trade all those pelts for one rifle so it could be a full year’s trapping probably if you go to get a rifle so and then you still had to trade you still had to trade for your powder and everything else - so you kind of had kind of had him over that’s come a lot of him stuck with the with the bow but easier like quiter know you could make one you know he didn’t have to whittle went out and I get some seen you and put yourself with string and you’re good to go
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