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196 - The Wendigo and Other American Indian Folklore Monsters

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

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The Sub-Arctic Culture Area

In the arctic, population was more sparse than it was further south. The growth of the fur trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries greatly disrupted the sub arctic way of life,. Instead of hunting and gathering for subsidance, the people focused on supplying pelts to ropean traders. In certain areas thay'd grow corn, beans and squash. And a man thata tos l thatslof tough for me to pronounce tribe names - i get the muppet song stuck in my head when i say 'monomony' But monominy, but a, buto whatever.

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