Baked Skunk

Baked skunk is delicious and these little animals with the black stripes down their backs are useful after all. In order to have baked skunk for Sunday dinner you must first obtain the skunk. This isn't easy. The method recommended by many Northern trappers is the oldtime box traps. You can make one of these traps to take to your summer cabin and have meat and protection at the same time. Once you get the skunk, attach a long pole to the box trap and take the skunk carefully to the nearest water hole and drown him. This method is very humane and you can wash him at the same time.

After the skunk has drowned, skin him carefully and make sure you remove the scent sack under the tail as it may taint the meat. Once cut up and quartered you put the meat in a pan and sprinkle paprika, sage, salt and pepper along with some onions and you can bake the skunk meat until tender. Invite your mother-in-law, and you no doubt know some politicians intimately who you could invite for dinner? GOOD LUCK.

The Tipi

The Tipi of the Plains was a portable structure. It was covered with well-made buffalo hides sewn togethor with sinew. This conical shaped dwelling probably evolved from the dome shaped dwelling that was made by bending willows into an arch shape, like a sweat lodge, but bigger, and then putting a cover over it. The Tipi was practical for buffalo hunters on the prairies who moved from place to place. The Tipi was easy to dismantle and the poles became part of the travois. When the horse was introduced the tipis became larger and more elaborate, and the number of foundation poles was more consistently patterned.

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Thankfulness: We learn by listening to traditional stories; by listening to our parents or guardians, our fellow students and our teachers.

Sharing: We learn by listening to traditional stories; by listening to our parents or guardians, our fellow students and our teachers.

Strength: We learn by listening to traditional stories; by listening to our parents or guardians, our fellow students and our teachers.

Good Child Rearing: We learn by listening to traditional stories; by listening to our parents or guardians, our fellow students and our teachers.

Hope: We learn by listening to traditional stories; by listening to our parents or guardians, our fellow students and our teachers.

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