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Buzz posted this in Off Topic and I figured some might like to see it here if they missed it there.
National Film Board - Cree Hunters Film
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There's plenty of gems on the NFB website if you look around a little. This one's a classic (doubtless a repost):
http://www.nfb.ca/film/survival_in_the_bush
Don't say those pinko lefty government teet-suckin' film types never did nothin' for ya
http://www.nfb.ca/film/survival_in_the_bush
Don't say those pinko lefty government teet-suckin' film types never did nothin' for ya
LittleBoyLefty
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The boys and I enjoyed that. Pretty cool! Thanks.
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The boys and I enjoyed that. Pretty cool! Thanks.
Your boys enjoy anything to do with hunting, you must be pulling my leg
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LittleBoyLefty
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Your boys enjoy anything to do with hunting, you must be pulling my leg
Yah, imagine that...
jetsfan,
That was a good watch too. If somewhat more dated. Looks to be a few other viewing possibilities on their site also.
Thanks for posting the video as I really enjoyed it. I thought it was funny how they let the rabbit go because they did not want the viewers at home to know they killed it. They caught some beautiful sturgeon and too bad you can’t catch sturgeon like that anymore in Ontario or Quebec.
Then later a bear takes there fish which they make a deadfall trap and kill it orphaning a cub. It looks like they just let the bear take the fish as they seem to film it 3 times taking fish away and returning. Oh yeah that’s a 400 pound bear alright. They kept the cub on a leash then it broke free and ran away with a guy’s belt still around its neck. I am sure if this was filmed today they would not be treating bears that way. Here in Ontario they cancel the spring bear hunt and if you have to shoot one it’s the third degree from the MNR. Back in 1954 when it was filmed they were treated as vermin.
The other part I had to laugh at is who gets stranded with a Cree Indian who can make you a birch bark canoe to get out. Some lucky for the CBC guy to be stranded with such a good woodsman and just follow him around eating and enjoying shelter he provides.
Then later a bear takes there fish which they make a deadfall trap and kill it orphaning a cub. It looks like they just let the bear take the fish as they seem to film it 3 times taking fish away and returning. Oh yeah that’s a 400 pound bear alright. They kept the cub on a leash then it broke free and ran away with a guy’s belt still around its neck. I am sure if this was filmed today they would not be treating bears that way. Here in Ontario they cancel the spring bear hunt and if you have to shoot one it’s the third degree from the MNR. Back in 1954 when it was filmed they were treated as vermin.
The other part I had to laugh at is who gets stranded with a Cree Indian who can make you a birch bark canoe to get out. Some lucky for the CBC guy to be stranded with such a good woodsman and just follow him around eating and enjoying shelter he provides.
it's too bad that for the most part this part of Canadian culture is gone. Sadly not many Crees live this lifestyle anymore. And while the hydro electric dams of the James Bay Project provided "clean" energy to a large part of North America, it has certainly changed the landscape up there forever. It's actually astonishing to see the scale of these reservoirs and how much it changed the land.
