Posted: Feb 14, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 14
John and Josephine Sam built a traditional piyaauhiipii or a net used to harvest ptarmigan with the help of local elders in Chisasibi, in northern Quebec(Submitted by Josephine Sam)
A Chisasibi couple used a hockey net bought from a sporting goods store in the south to adapt a traditional Cree net used to harvest ptarmigan. They say it is helping them harvest more traditional food and spend more time on the land.
John and Josephine Sam live in the Cree community of Chisasibi, located more than 1,500 kilometres north of Montreal. I think it s so important that our people thought of a way to harvest food without using guns, [as] we know that many in the early days did not own any. They found other ways to harvest food using techniques such a