A Northern Experience: The Journals of Norman Robinson
Good Hope Trader Page 40

The Summer, when all the Indians are in the Post, is the time for Weddings and each one calls for a feast.

A cloth is laid on the flattest piece of ground, and the men sit on one side – Squaws on the other. White Man's grub, bread, butter, jam etc, is generally eaten first as it is the correct thing to do, but the feast usually ends with a good filling up on dried or pounded meat.

After the feast there is usually a dance. A new Flagstaff was erected by the Hudson's Bay Company and a local Trapper cut out a weather vane

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NWT Archives/Robinson N-2002-005: 0184
NWT Archives/Robinson N-2002-005: 0184