This is my first official blog post on the new site, so welcome. Welcome to anyone just stopping by and especially to any readers who have followed me across from my old Blogger blog. I promise this website is going to be bigger, brighter and better! I have imported many of the old blogposts which is why this doesn’t appear as the first post. I’d like to say it’s for the benefit of anyone joining who might be interested in…
It has been so long since I last sat down to write. I know I promised great things to anyone that actually reads my blog and failed to deliver on all accounts. It would be wonderful if I could at least say it was because I was busy writing my dissertation but as I said, it has been ages since I last sat down to write anything at all. So here we are already 22 days into another new year…
One of the better things about living in rural Canada in a majority First Nations province is the way that people still rely heavily on the land as a major source of income. For many people in Ashern, farming, particularly of cattle is their livelihood. Most of the men enjoy hunting and fishing as weekend pastimes. I have heard that it is permitted to hunt certain animals at different times of the year and that sometimes, depending on the season, instead of…