Persistence hunting: "involves the pursuit of prey, on foot, until the hunter overtakes the animal, which has been immobilized by exhaustion and hyperthermia."
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present insane feats of human endurance that were once commonplace? I became exhausted just reading that sentence. #read4reconciliation #canada150
Ecological studies have shown that [these traditions] purposefully abstained from beaver hunting as a means of managing the amount of available water.
I can already tell that this book is going to blow my mind. Here we get a bit of foreshadowing about the beaver hunt. #read4reconciliation #canada150
Picked this up for my #library's #Read4Reconciliation challenge. #canada150
