Innu snowshoes

As soon as the caribou is killed, Innu start making the hunter’s snowshoes and moccasins. The hunter is essential to their survival, hence the great respect accorded him. The same respect applies to his equipment, meaning his clothing, food and snowshoes. Starting with caribou skin to make ¨babiche¨, birch tree to make the frames and a weaving technic to assemble it all. This book discloses the innu way of making snowshoes. Some interactive exercises are suggested at the end of every chapter along with an innu/english lexicon specific to snowshoes.