Torche Olympique et Trappe

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Carrying the Torch - Day 9: Trapping: A way of life to preserve, if not revive




Saturday, Nov. 7: Cold Lake, AB to Thompson, MB



By Shelley Fralic, Vancouver Sun columnist


http://www.timescolonist.com/life/Carrying+Torch+Trapping+life+preserve+revive/2198182/story.html




Aileen, 12, the daughter of Lac La Ronge indian band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson, sings O Canada in Cree at a blessing ceremony Saturday, in Northern Saskatchewan on Day 9 of the Olympic torch relay.





LA RONGE, Sask. - Growing up in north Saskatchewan for Tammy Cook-Searson meant spending every winter working on the family's trapline, from November right through spring, living in a log cabin with a wood stove to keep warm, and taking the beaver and muskrat, the fox and lynx, from the land.

She remembers eating beaver meat, boiled, and using the teeth to make keychains, and stretching the pelt to make moccasins.
Today, Cook-Searson, now 38 and chief of the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, takes her three children, ages 16, 12 and four, out trapping on the family line whenever she can, it being her goal to preserve in the youth the ancestral heritage that is in the elders.

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Quel foin on nous fait avec les héritages ancestraux, Comme par hasard, on choisit généralement de maintenir ce qu'il a de pire parmi eux. J'en ai jusque là moi des traditions ancestrales !