Week 4 Challenge to Survive I

Challenge to Survive I - In this book it pointed out the following ideas I might be able to tie into future lessons:
*From my Traditional Games teachings, I could tie in not only the Blackfeet use and history of the horse but now the Salish.

*In Archery Lesson - Ask the students what changed the impact of the use of bow and arrows for Salish hunters? Answer - use of horses to increase success of hunts and increase the amounts brought back to the camp and then with introduction of guns it increased the shooting range.  This was all well and good at first, but now more ground could be covered and hunting grounds were encroached upon past the Continental divide.  Now the use of guns was used as protection and fighting for more land and stealing of horses was considered an irritant.  It is also interesting to note that poverty widened and reared its ugly head even more so with the ownership of horses.  I am curious to know how poverty was measured before the introduction of horses. (other than the success of ones family as hunters I would assume)Another point on is that even in the peace talks on page 32 it is interesting to note that even then they had the statement of hunting on their own land but extend their hunting on Peigan land and that it would be a battle.  This battle of hunting grounds is still going on today... Tribal land, wolves, etc.

*In construction to the winter game Snow Snake, the introduction of better tools occurred during the nineteenth century.  Namely the files that could be used instead of sand stone and rocks. 

What I found very interesting was the trading for furs amount.  The largest amount was 18 skins per pair of shoes.  In today's standings that seems to still be in balance.  Basketball shoes are coveted and run upward of $200 dollars.  Strange how some things never change.