Eat like a voyageur — pemmican (and rubaboo)

Eat like a voyageur — pemmican (and rubaboo)

What if — as a voyageur — you didn’t love pea soup, the only food provisioned by the French-Canadian fur companies, your twice-a day meal for 6 weeks on the Ottawa and Mattawa Rivers? After 94 meals, your brigade would have been down to its last cup of dried...
Tepees, lodges, bullboats and pemmican

Tepees, lodges, bullboats and pemmican

We visited North Dakota’s Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck a few weeks back. I was admiring a Dakota lodge when a guide came by to offer more information. We then talked about tepee construction. What a gold mine he was!   He said me the lodge I was...

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