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From Flint to Fish: How Our Ancestors Fished with Dr. Bill Schindler

Year of Plenty: Traditional Foodways

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The Benefits of Natural Fiber Nets for Fishing

There's a plant that's known as dogbane or Indian hemp. It is an incredible, when that plant is alive, it will kill you if you eat it. There are cattle that die every year from eating this plant. But it has these best fibers or these fibers there that not only are incredibly strong to make nets and ropes and things out of but those very toxins that would make you sick or killed you if you ate it help preserve it in the water.

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