Moose

In America every year, thousands gather in Alaska, to watch the greatest dog sled race in the world. 100 mushers start at the starting line in Anchorage, Alaska, and travel thousands of miles, to the finish line is Nome, Alaska. They are put out with many challenges along the way. Frost bite, below freezing temperatures, etc. etc. But somehow they all have a goal, the goal of being an idol to someone. To show people and kids, that it’s okay to go out there, when the chances are slim of surviving…

I’m a military child, and as such, it’s always an awkward thing when someone asks me: “Where are you from?” I don’t really know, I can’t pinpoint an exact place where I can say: “I’m from so-and-so.” I can tell you where my family spent a lot time though, where the memories are the deepest, and the places I felt a strong connection to. Alaska is such a place. There’s nowhere in the world like Alaska, and I can say that with extreme clarity because my father has been everywhere. He’ll say…

Hunting Popularity Hunting isn 't a popular sport to some people, but for others they hunt all the time. Some people don 't like killing animals because they think it is wrong, for other people they like it for a sport, hobby, and for other reasons. Some people do it for fun and some for meat. There are many reasons people hunt. The sport of hunting could be different in many people 's eyes. Some even think it 's not a sport at all. But for some people they see it as a sport for many reasons,…

Certain patterns emerge, such as a traditional hero on a journey towards self actualization. Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer portrays this hero’s journey. The protagonist of the novel, Chris McCandless, hitchhikes to Alaska and walks alone into the wilderness, north of Mt. McKinley. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. He thought that the reality of the modern world was…

house, and we were staying in the game room. In Alaska, “game room” means something a lot different than is known to people in urban areas, and this game room was where their hunting trophies lived. For 4 days we slept in the same room as bear hides, moose heads, deer antlers and a stuffed dahl sheep. One night, I fell asleep on the couch and Erika and our other friend Hannah decided that it would be a great practical joke to wake me up with the bear hide. You can imagine how the rest of that…

A Wing and a Prayer Small northern communities are tight knit. It’s not that everybody knows everybody else’s business, but everybody is conscious who has not come back from the trap line come dark, whose boats are out on the lake on a windy day, and what flying conditions are like as they listen for that unmistakable drone of a returning Otter or Beaver. Often people will gather and go out to wistfully search the horizon for comforting signs of their loved ones. Such was the case one heavily…

kept within their language. Another aspect of the Blackfoot language is how relatively hard it is to translate their language into English for every phrase in Blackfoot is more or less a description of something, not just a single word, for example moose translates to “dark moving into the brush” (Briggeman "Keeping a Language Alive"). As you can see the translation also uses the timeless verbs as mentioned…

Bastardized versions of Native American history have been widely accepted within the media, which is often seen from classic Western films to some of our children’s beloved Disney adaptations. Such has caused many of the undereducated to hold a belief that the extent of Native American history is one of rebellion upon horseback while shooting rifles in the air, and attempting to scalp any “white man” who dared trespass onto their defined territory. This could not be further from the truth. Prior…

The New World once was a place with peace and love for nature. Resources were used on need basis and land was not used as a commodity. Ownership was based upon mobility. Native Americans only owned things that they could take with them. Native Americans faced many changes but nothing close to the ones they faced with Europe interference with the New World. In the book Cronon discusses how the economic and ecological changes resulted from the interactions between the English settlers and the…

that acted as the example to fur trading companies all along the Missouri River . With 1865 came the first documented case proposing that Yellowstone should become protected and preserved as a National Park. The land was occupied by antelope, bison, moose, and many other animals in their natural habitats that needed to be protected. In 1872 the Yellowstone Protection Act agreed and created an act to set apart a certain region of land lying near the headwaters of the Yellowstone River as a public…