Interview · North Dakota · Vincent Grant Sr. · NDNAEU 2 · NDNAEU 6
Themes: Kinship & family, Culture & continuity, Community & responsibility
Learn About questions
How did the fur trade era affect indigenous communities?
When did the fur trade begin to decline?
Where might you find a modern-day fur trade rendezvous?
Learn From questions
What people or events have come into my life that have made me change my ways of being?
How have my interactions with people from other cultures affected who I am as an individual person? As part of a community?
Have I, or others in my family, struggled with alcohol in ways that negatively affect those around me? How has my family (or circle of support) helped me in those struggles?
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04 Vincent Grant “Change in Communities” NDNAEU 2 & 6
Watch this interview on YouTubeWell I’m sure you know we start getting into more like metal goods iron copper cast iron and so they start using their implements a lot better before that they were all using bones and and clothes at harms and stuff too for it for tools and stuff and so we kind of got into that and a lot of their some of their nuts of good stuff too you know with the with the whiskey and then and fighting and whatnot and going back and forth with each other of course the natives always did that you know they were never always buddy-buddy they were always back and forth and dealing horses from each other and whatnot and just the way it was you know so but this year had kind of a more of an effect on us to go out more to get more the outside goods and stuff to start coming in otherwise it was just natural stuff that we had here so we started getting more of the outside stuff into the beads in the glass beads and then mirrors and all this other stuff that they brought in and so it kind of start changing and start using that more that was one of the ways anyway
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