Johnny Klonkike says in the olden days older people used to pull him across Beaver River. They used to build spruce bark canoes, and they used to bring down a whole bunch of dry meat, and they used to sell these to the white people...
They were out of tobacco so they used to use gunny sacks for wrapping and they had no tobacco so the Hudson Bay man used to slice a chunk of this gunny sack and they used to chew that for the taste of the tobacco that was in it. He says he seen those days.
But he says we never depended on the white man for the living those days like what we are now, he says.
His uncles and older people used to hunt meat for the Hudson's Bay or any white man... They used to hunt moose and sell the meat, the bull moose, or cow moose was 30 skins which is equivalent to $10 those days. And the bull moose was 20,20 into 3, that would be about 5,6 dollars a piece. And the little ones would probably be 2 or 3 dollars. That was the price we used to sell the meat for those days...
They sold the good meat and they kept the heads and the leg bones for themselves.
