Watch: Birth Of A Dugout Canoe

This is a documentary movie uncovering the difficult and time consuming process of making traditional expanded dugout canoe using mostly traditional hand tools and techniques.

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Hickory Freight Frame

I fashioned this Freight Frame out of green Hickory limbs. The webbing is the green bark stripped from the limbs. I found the red nylon rope along the trail and used it for the shoulder straps and cargo strap. Keep the whole frame moist so the bark webbing keeps from drying out and it will last for several months of work.

Braving Alaska

You'll experience America's pioneering spirit through these remarkable people who are 

Braving Alaska!

Sub-Arctic Winter Bivouacking

Sub-Arctic Winter Bivouacking

Chippewa Indians Migration To Nunavut

Chippewa Indians Migration To Nunavut (Silent Enemy)

Building An Eskimo Kayak

Building An Eskimo Kayak The Netsilik, People Of The Seal. 1923

Traditional Woodland Cree of northern Alberta Tapping Birch Trees and making Syrup

Season of the Birch. An insightful glance into the traditional lifestyle of the Woodland Cree of northern Alberta. Narrated by Chief Dan George. Filmed in 1973

Attikamek Nation Birch Bark Canoe Building Video

Attikamek Nation - Birch Bark Canoe Building - Directed by Bernard Gosselin - 1971

The Feather Spear Trap

Primitive Survival Trap – The Feather Spear Trap.

How to build a primitive survival trap that is particularly effective against wild hogs. It is easy to build and it is reliable.

Woodland Cree Traditional Moose Hide Tanning

This video shows the 13 steps to traditional Moose-hide tanning, the Woodland Cree way. 

In honor of Métis Elder Elsie Quintal.

Fur Harvesters NWT

Fur Harvesters NWT Season 1 Ep 1 and Ep 2

Welcome to The Wild North. These TV episodes were filmed in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Watch Andrew Stanley and his Black lab Charlie the "beaver retriever" as they hack out a traditional bush life of  Hunting and Trapping in North Western Canada. 

The first episode of fur harvesters there was 10 episodes made for season 1 and 8 episodes made for season 2.

Bush Camping in Deep Winter Swiss Mountains Video

Solo Swiss Mountain Overnight in a Deep Winter by  Monty Frazier

He took a Solo Mountain Trip Overnight. Deep in the Swiss Mountains during Winter. With heavy snowfall conditions were tough. Set up camp, building his own shelter and creating a flint stone fire.

Dick Proenneke lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin

Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke (May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was a self-educated naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.

The cabin was built using only hand tools, many of which Proenneke himself had fashioned. Throughout the thirty years he lived at the cabin, Proenneke created homemade furniture and implements that reflect his woodworking genius…

BioLite Camp Stove & Portable Phone Charger

BIOLITE CAMPSTOVE & PORTABLE USB CHARGER WITH FREE USB FLEXLIGHT

How to make a paracord axe handle wrap

This video demonstrates how to make a paracord axe handle wrap. 

It is made in a quick deploy fashion, which means it can be completely unraveled in a matter of seconds when needed.

Paracord short for Parachute Cord is a lightweight nylon rope used during World War II for yeah you guessed it parachute suspension lines. Today paracord is used widely throughout all branches of the military and civilian use. The Mil spec paracord has six different grades ranging in strength from 95lb to 750lb. I use Type-III which has a minimum breaking strength of 550lbs. although I have personally tested it up to 1,000lbs. It consists of a sheath that contains seven two strand yarns. One of the nifty things about this rope is that it can be easily gutted of its inner yarns for more delicate jobs like sewing. The cord, when gutted of the core yarns, is considered Type-IIa which becomes much less elastic (good or bad thing depends on) and retains a breaking strength of 225lbs.

Ghost Deer 10/26/15

"Ghost of the White Deer" ... Sometimes being in the Mountains hunting animals brings more than just a kill or trophy to the wild experience, it sometimes brings the amazing.. I've been tracking this Female White Deer for over a week now and the opportunity came this morning for a perfect shot. But I was always told it's Bad Medicine to kill a white deer. After all the hard work outsmarting her, I didn't have the heart to kill her, so I left her live another day...Also In Native American mythology there is the Chickasaw legend, Ghost of the White Deer.  There is also a Lenape legend about white deer that predicts that when a pair of all-white deer is seen together, it is a sign that the indigenous peoples of the Dawnland will all come together and lead the world with their wisdom.
Many tribes and indigenous peoples throughout the world have similar myths. The Seneca, Roanoke, Algonquin, Nanticoke, and Pocomoke tribes all relate sightings of the Great White Deer.

"Ghost of the White Deer" ... Sometimes being in the Mountains hunting animals brings more than just a kill or trophy to...
Posted by Mountain Mann Survival on Monday, October 26, 2015

Building a tiled roof hut with heated floor video

He built this tiled roof hut in the bush using only primitive tools and materials. The tools I used have been made in my previous videos. It should be pointed out that I do not live in the wild and that this is just a hobby. It should be obvious to most that this is not a survival shelter but an experiment in primitive building technology.