Using Everything with Vincent Grant Sr.

Oh yeah they used to use everything they could get their hands on the rabbits and whatever else mink beaver and everything they used whatever they couldn’t eat the skin and use solos pelts and them and uh flint and arrow shafts feathers everything they got anything they could get their hands on that they could possibly trade for tea hang on Joe should it and so the North West fur trade company in those would come down the rivers and this huge cargo canoeist 30-foot 40-foot canoes this packed with goods hit pull off and trade button three or four or five times in it go back with their pelts whatever else yeah do you I’m sure the fur trapper traders and stuff they used everything they could get ahold of waterfowl on everything else in the fish and everything else feed you know kind of buried their menu - we were here a long time before that and we knew all these things were there and how to go about using them and as a matter of fact I think a lot of modern medicine he even comes from remedies that were used way back by Native Americans you know a lot of that stuff translated our they used it into modern medicine so the huge footwear that is available to him and if fur trade guys was the same thing mountain men it traded and it’s lived with the natives for so long that took over there better ways you know they a lot of them didn’t want to be around cat tent cities or camps or anything else they come in do their trading and they get out get away and go back to where they were like I said all summer long to be hunting for ourselves you know for their own living and then scouting for it that the next winter trapping and setting stuff up building small Cavendish build little cabins from 6-8 foot square just so they could get in build a fire and skin turgor inside their place together when you know under weather wasn’t huge just something small or a cave we don’t whatever came before they could find they used and then welcome to what stayed with the Native American they stayed tents oh well flight ensign and like that so a kind of way to poke because I’m sure you know they brought in is probably as much as they took you know you know they bring did get their first whatever I’ll stay but all these extra trade goods and stuff like that in different ways you know cuz I’ll pick up different ways and the other people and ways to live and ways to do things you know yeah