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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 History of Fishing Weirs

Fishing weirs and then in combo with the poisons are kind of found all over the world. We see stuff here in Eastern North America again, probably around the world as well. One of the reasons that George Washington settled a valley forge over winter of the valley forge during Revolutionary War is because they knew the salmon resource was coming up the river in the spring. But certainly things like like spears, spears and bows and arrows would have been used.

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