Trapping and Rendezvous with Vincent Grant Sr.

My name is Vincent grande senior as a member here turtlemom and Chippewa and I lived here born and raised here and I’m who do we for work know that my charity moves back here back home so what I’m gonna get into I guess is uh how we came to be here you know a lot of us amidships Indian American even people we’re here before but how will you know all mixed in with everybody is to the fur trade era when fur trade companies were a big go work with her you had big company and Hudson Bay Company got the bike first what they bought first for is the discover dicted Shirdi beaver pelts and make cell phone make felt like this hat is made us and me but he would take it sure mom and then he get wake up underneath a day baby’s hands with the reason they wanted if though yeah top hats came in style tall top hats and so they needed the felt to make them top hats and so they started buying it for the furs and stuff and then sort of became the fur trade era to mountain men and whatever else but like mid 1700 to around 1840 summer snare um like I said he they started in st.Louis actually the fur trade company our era did and they moved out from there and then some of the bigger companies start like from Hudson Bay and Northwest portrayed it in Canada instead he started going on the rivers picking up these first trade news well at first they were having to ship their furs and all their for his back to st.Louis then he started calling up to Canada and then after one company decided well why should I wake here for the first when I could go down and meet him and buy them before this other companies get ahead of me they start having rendezvous is they’d have a spring rendezvous trappers would go out in the trap all winter stock up their furs and whatever else then using the spring of the year the water river waters were high did put up huge canoes and now like trade goods then it comes on the down the rivers and whatever else they pull off a saddle bar or whatever it it set up a rendezvous and all the fur trappers and the local Indian tribes would all get together week celebration and trading so the trappers mainly would buy their traps that he did and it was by led to make bullets on it they buy gunpowder did buy beads the trade with their data was with mirrors iron knives cooking kettles cloth ribbons and combs and stuff like that and now so they would come in and trade well the fur trade company was kind of kind of different people though thing so they came in and they but heggs of whiskey with him that he come in and to the first company our fur traders at come in it’ll break open a keg of whiskey and get them started and then after they had some going in it sell more whiskey to them they buy their first I mean time trade for their furs whatever else and so that whenever they’d have round it we did all we have games you know you get a bunch of guys together and well I could shoot my rifle better than you can I can shoot this right this bow better than you can I throw a knife or hock better than you think we can wrestle and whatever else and horse races and I’m we just had a big celebration it in the rendezvous besides trading all their first know some of the main things that the fur trade company brought down like I said was led and gunpowder and they brought tea not a lot of coffee but they brought tea and brown sugar and tobacco and all the other trade goods like I said some spices and some beads and trinkets and whatever else to trade for her furs so they would do this every spring and so they go from one to the next they go right down the river and go and trade with all these people know a lot of the factors would all bring it bring all their fur in but they would bring all kinds of other things to bones and skulls and horns and one of the main things they traded for down here was overnight nice river you have some really good Flint for Flint arrowheads and knives and like that so they had some really good Flint some of the best in the world actually and so they would add they were trapping or whatever else could see this foot you’d pick it up and carry it with them they’d bring it to the rendezvous and they trade their Flint and whatever else for a whatever they needed and so that was where their big celebration for the year was the main spring then after that everything kind of broke up and for trade companies took all their furs back and a big cargo canoes and haul them back and the trappers went on about their scouting the if you lose their summers to scout and to set up small tents and stuff caps and stuff for the next winter and they did catch all their traps and stuff in there and all their stuff in there and a key where in one of their cabins and so they didn’t have to drag it on carry their own with them