{"id":256,"date":"2017-11-29T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgrf.ca\/?page_id=256"},"modified":"2022-04-26T20:07:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:07:33","slug":"grassy-narrows-trappers-council-grassy-narrows-trapping-workshop-fall-feast","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cgrf.ca\/index.php\/community-partners\/grassy-narrows-trappers-council-grassy-narrows-trapping-workshop-fall-feast\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassy Narrows Trappers’ Council – Grassy Narrows Trapping Workshop & Fall Feast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kenora Trappers’ Council member Janice Anderson demonstrates stretching a beaver pelt for students at the Grassy Narrows school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The CGRF supported the Grassy Narrows\u2019 Trappers Council in presenting a trapping workshop in conjunction with the community\u2019s fall feast. \u00a0This event took place October 21, 2010 in the gymnasium at the Grassy Narrows School.<\/p>\n

The workshop provided educational outreach to Indigenous and non-Indigenous trappers, as well as an opportunity for elders to transmit traditional knowledge to youth.<\/p>\n

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Kenora Trappers’ Council instructor Ken Maw demonstrates how to prepare muskrat and beaver pelts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This workshop was primarily intended to focus on bridging an emerging gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous trappers that had been fueled by recent changes to trapping regulations in Ontario. \u00a0Under the current system, non-Indigenous trappers were being awarded trap lines as they became available based a points system.\u00a0 However, Indigenous trappers who were able to indicate a documented significant family connection to a given trap line were allowed first right-of-refusal before trap lines were made available to non-Indigenous trappers.\u00a0 This had resulted in some tension between Indigenous and non-Indigenous trapping groups because it meant that non-Indigenous trappers could not directly transfer trap lines to their own descendents, kin, associates, helpers, etc.<\/p>\n

The final report from this project is available here: Trappers Final Report<\/a><\/p>\n