Wikibooks: Canadian History/The People of the Lands/Sekani

• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Subjects: Trident; caribou
• Online Access: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Canadian_History/The_People_of_the_Lands/Sekani

A bark lodge present in the few Sekani family that settled in one place more for longer than a week. =Diet= Living in the Rockies food was hard to come by. The most common foods were Moose Moose were one of the most common game in the Sekani area. Caribou Just like moose Caribou was very common. Bear The Sekani s hunted bear as much as they could manage. It was very tasty and put up much more of a fight for the hunters. Porcupine Many Sekani s were injured trying to hunt this tricky animal. It was only after they actually got one that they found out it wasn t very tasty. Beaver Like Porcupine the only reason that these were hunted would be lack of food or the tough skins that beavers yielded. Fish Fish was the thing the Sekani s hated the most. It didn t fill them up and they only hunted fish out of necessity. The only reason the Sekani did not continually hunt Moose was because they were in scarce quantities. Almost everything else was hunted out of hunger. Most of the Sekani diet was constructed of protein with very little vegetables present. Some sources say they ate medicinal herbs to ease pain or induce sleep. =Technology= Even though these aren t Sekani hunters it still gives you the general idea of the fishing techniques. Bow and arrow were the prime hunting weapon as they provided excellent speed and range. A common hunting technique would have around 10 hunters all fire arrows aimed at the head of the prey. This tactic worked very well except on smaller animals where accuracy was vital. They used bow and arrows on fish where sheer numbers of arrows would be the deciding factor on the kill. Nets constructed of willow bark or nettle fibre were used to catch fish when they could not find any other food. They did not use very many boats. The small lakes iced over enough to allow the nets to be dragged across the lake yielding plentiful catches of ice fish. Another effective method was shallow water trident fishing. The Sekani preferred to use almost every material but stone. The only things they used stone ...