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Chase Hickey                                                                               Hickey 1

Ms. Bennett

British Literature

16 September 2011

                                             The Hunt Begins

       How is modern day hunting similar and different from the ways the Indians hunted?

How did the Indians use their resources more wisely than modern day hunters? The Indians did

not have guns or any black powder weapons. Every weapon that the Indians used was hand

made by them out of rocks and other natural resources. Comparing and contrasting the hunting

styles and techniques of Native American hunting, as well as the styles and techniques of modern

day hunters.

       The Indians had different uses of their resources when they hunted than modern day

hunters. “Before Europeans arrived with iron, brass, copper, steel, fabric, and glass, the white-

tail was a virtual „general store‟ to the native people of the northeast” (Trotta). The Native

Americans used the animals they hunted for weapons, clothes, ceremonial implements, and tools.

When they killed the animals that they hunted, they took it back and butchered it into smaller

parts. Everything on the animals that could be used and turned into any item, was used and very

little went to waste. For example, “Deer hides were an important source of clothing for Native

Americans” (Trotta). After the Native Americans skinned their animals, they would remove any

fat and hair left on the animal. They used the hides that they skinned as quivers or pouches,

clothing, and other tools. The Native Americans also used the hides that were skinned as a type

of camouflage, or decoy. The Natives Americans were different from the modern day hunters

because they used what they had more wisely.
Hickey 2

       The Indians used what they had more wisely than the modern day person could even

think about. “Deer Bones were cleaned and processed into a wide variety of tools and

implements” (Trotta). They used the skull of a deer for a spoon, and the leg bones were carved

into knife handles and arrows. The Longer bones would be cracked and made into needles, and

bone fragments were used in arrowheads, spears, and knives. The Native American hunters also

used bone fragments to produce spear heads and arrowheads. “Sinew, or tendon, is the very

tough connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone in most animals” (Trotta). The Native

Americans cleaned the tendons and used them mostly for sewing thread. They also used the

tendons for bow strings and spear heads. They also used the sinew for sewing moccasins and

clothing together. The Native Americans thought more outside of the bow than the modern day

hunters, because they used their resources the way they should.

       The Indian way of life and hunting was all depended on their techniques and their style

which are very different to the modern day hunters. “Deer were hunted by two basic methods”

(Holt). The first methods consist of one man with a bow and arrow that stalks the animals

quietly and kills them. The men act as if they are their own decoy, and wear a previous killed

deer as a head dress. “Smaller game was hunted by the children” (Holt). The stories passed

down from earlier Indians describe children shooting frogs and squirrels with their bow and

arrow. The children also used a “blow pipe” which was used to shoot a small arrow at birds or

other small animals. The styles and techniques of the Native Americans are much more thought

out and used more wisely.

       The modern day hunting styles and techniques are very different from that of the Native

Americans. “Hunting was an almost universal activity” (Almond). For the upper class in society
Hickey 3

       it provided food, and it was for sport, and the lower class it was for food and raw

materials for personal use. The men and women do not show enough mercy to the animals they

kill by stalking them and just doing it for sport. Most hunters are not like that though, they kill

the animals for food to survive. ““Hunter-gatherers” is a term generally used to describe people

from ancient society who survived exclusively by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild foods”

(Hodge). The Modern day hunters usually take into account where the mostvaluable food

source, of the animals being hunted, is around the area.Modern hunters also use bait to attract the

animal being hunted into a location. Most hunters today use a scouting technique by baiting an

area with corn or apples, and set up a trail camera to see what comes in to eat and at what

times.The Native Americans never baited the animals in like the modern day hunter.

       The modern day hunter techniques are much different than the way the Native Americans

did things.“Various forms of persistence hunting have been recorded in the Kalahari”

(Liebenberg).They knocked small animals down with a club and then they would kill them, but if

the animal ran they would run it down.The babies of small mammals were run down on foot by

the people and caught and killed by hand. Many hunters looked for slow-moving animals to run

down in the open country like aardvark and porcupine.“During one trip, five days of hunting

resulted in one gemsbok (antelope like mammal) and two bat-eared foxes killed by hunting with

dogs” (Liebenberg).This method proves that hunting with dogs is much more efficient for the

hunters.The dogs gave them the nose to sniff out where the animals were, and it also helped them

track down wounded animals. Many hunters use them not only to track wounded animals, but to

retrieve small birds, pheasants, and ducks.This just comes to show you
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       the modern day hunters are different in many styles and techniques from the Native

American hunters.

       Modern day hunters had different types of strategies than the Native American people

had back in their times. “When glassing, try to keep hidden using rocks or ground cover. You

will see more action during dawn and dusk” (Ott). Good strategies while deer, moose, and elk

hunting is to scan through the tree lines and the timber pockets. If you are in a good location on

your hunt, you should start to see movement within about 10 minutes, if you are glassing from a

distant hill or mountain. Most animals are skittish to come into bow range so most are shot using

a gun or black powder firearms. “If you know for a fact that the game you are after is in the

vicinity, you will have the confidence to wait until you spot them” (Ott). To scan correctly you

should create a system that helps you scan efficiently. Most hunters use a system like a grid

when scanning an area. They start at any spot and use a grid method, going from left to right,

and then up anddown. The strategies for killing animals in the modern days are a lot different

than the Native Americans had.

       The Native American and modern day hunters have some similar strategies and

techniques in common. “Hunters would go out in groups, or individually to locate and harvest

these animals” (Trotta). Hunters from a tribe would go out in a pack and trap then kill the

animals, or they would go out individually to stalk the animals. Modern day hunters go out in

groups, when they are duck and bird hunting, but they mostly hunt alone in a tree stand. “After

an animal was skinned, the hide was processed by first removing the hair and any residual meat

and fat left on the flesh side” (Trotta). The Native Americans, just like modern day hunters,

made the hides that were scraped off into rugs or carpets. Both the modern day hunters and the
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Native Americans used a frame to stretch out the hides before use. The techniques of using the

hide for carpet are common to both the Native Americans and the modern day hunters.

       The Native Americans used the deer they killed for many purposes, and similarly the

modern day hunters‟ use killed animals for many things as well. “White-tailed deer provide

many uses of itself after being killed by a hunter” (Trotta). The Native Americans used the

white-tailed deer for many purposes, like; ceremonial items, hammers, and fishing supplies. The

modern day hunters use the deer that they harvest to get doe pee that hunters will put on their

boots during rut, for bucks to come in to be killed. “Native American tribes also had various

traditions of chasing down animals on foot” (Liebenberg). The Tarahumara Indians chased deer

through the mountains of Northern Mexico until the animals collapsed from being exhausted and

vitally wounded. The Paiutes and Navajo tribes in the American Southeast were said to hunt

pronghorn antelope using this technique. The Aborigines Indians from Australia were also

discovered using this interesting technique. The modern day hunters are very similar and

different in many ways from the Native Americans, in the way they use their resources.

       The Native American Indians are very different from the modern day hunters, because

they use their resources more wisely, make their own arrowheads, weapons, and their ways of

stalking animals. The modern day hunters are different from the Native Americans, because they

use cover scent so that the animals will not smell them, and sit in a tree in a stand and wait for

animals to approach them.In this essay, I have compared and contrasted the modern day hunting

styles and techniques with the way the Native Americans did it.If you really think about it, the

modern day hunters could have looked upon the Native Americans, and took their techniques
Hickey 6

and twisted them into different ways. So could you answer this question now? How are modern

day hunters similar and different to the Native American hunters from history?

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Senior project rough draft

  • 1. Chase Hickey Hickey 1 Ms. Bennett British Literature 16 September 2011 The Hunt Begins How is modern day hunting similar and different from the ways the Indians hunted? How did the Indians use their resources more wisely than modern day hunters? The Indians did not have guns or any black powder weapons. Every weapon that the Indians used was hand made by them out of rocks and other natural resources. Comparing and contrasting the hunting styles and techniques of Native American hunting, as well as the styles and techniques of modern day hunters. The Indians had different uses of their resources when they hunted than modern day hunters. “Before Europeans arrived with iron, brass, copper, steel, fabric, and glass, the white- tail was a virtual „general store‟ to the native people of the northeast” (Trotta). The Native Americans used the animals they hunted for weapons, clothes, ceremonial implements, and tools. When they killed the animals that they hunted, they took it back and butchered it into smaller parts. Everything on the animals that could be used and turned into any item, was used and very little went to waste. For example, “Deer hides were an important source of clothing for Native Americans” (Trotta). After the Native Americans skinned their animals, they would remove any fat and hair left on the animal. They used the hides that they skinned as quivers or pouches, clothing, and other tools. The Native Americans also used the hides that were skinned as a type of camouflage, or decoy. The Natives Americans were different from the modern day hunters because they used what they had more wisely.
  • 2. Hickey 2 The Indians used what they had more wisely than the modern day person could even think about. “Deer Bones were cleaned and processed into a wide variety of tools and implements” (Trotta). They used the skull of a deer for a spoon, and the leg bones were carved into knife handles and arrows. The Longer bones would be cracked and made into needles, and bone fragments were used in arrowheads, spears, and knives. The Native American hunters also used bone fragments to produce spear heads and arrowheads. “Sinew, or tendon, is the very tough connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone in most animals” (Trotta). The Native Americans cleaned the tendons and used them mostly for sewing thread. They also used the tendons for bow strings and spear heads. They also used the sinew for sewing moccasins and clothing together. The Native Americans thought more outside of the bow than the modern day hunters, because they used their resources the way they should. The Indian way of life and hunting was all depended on their techniques and their style which are very different to the modern day hunters. “Deer were hunted by two basic methods” (Holt). The first methods consist of one man with a bow and arrow that stalks the animals quietly and kills them. The men act as if they are their own decoy, and wear a previous killed deer as a head dress. “Smaller game was hunted by the children” (Holt). The stories passed down from earlier Indians describe children shooting frogs and squirrels with their bow and arrow. The children also used a “blow pipe” which was used to shoot a small arrow at birds or other small animals. The styles and techniques of the Native Americans are much more thought out and used more wisely. The modern day hunting styles and techniques are very different from that of the Native Americans. “Hunting was an almost universal activity” (Almond). For the upper class in society
  • 3. Hickey 3 it provided food, and it was for sport, and the lower class it was for food and raw materials for personal use. The men and women do not show enough mercy to the animals they kill by stalking them and just doing it for sport. Most hunters are not like that though, they kill the animals for food to survive. ““Hunter-gatherers” is a term generally used to describe people from ancient society who survived exclusively by hunting, fishing, and gathering wild foods” (Hodge). The Modern day hunters usually take into account where the mostvaluable food source, of the animals being hunted, is around the area.Modern hunters also use bait to attract the animal being hunted into a location. Most hunters today use a scouting technique by baiting an area with corn or apples, and set up a trail camera to see what comes in to eat and at what times.The Native Americans never baited the animals in like the modern day hunter. The modern day hunter techniques are much different than the way the Native Americans did things.“Various forms of persistence hunting have been recorded in the Kalahari” (Liebenberg).They knocked small animals down with a club and then they would kill them, but if the animal ran they would run it down.The babies of small mammals were run down on foot by the people and caught and killed by hand. Many hunters looked for slow-moving animals to run down in the open country like aardvark and porcupine.“During one trip, five days of hunting resulted in one gemsbok (antelope like mammal) and two bat-eared foxes killed by hunting with dogs” (Liebenberg).This method proves that hunting with dogs is much more efficient for the hunters.The dogs gave them the nose to sniff out where the animals were, and it also helped them track down wounded animals. Many hunters use them not only to track wounded animals, but to retrieve small birds, pheasants, and ducks.This just comes to show you
  • 4. Hickey 4 the modern day hunters are different in many styles and techniques from the Native American hunters. Modern day hunters had different types of strategies than the Native American people had back in their times. “When glassing, try to keep hidden using rocks or ground cover. You will see more action during dawn and dusk” (Ott). Good strategies while deer, moose, and elk hunting is to scan through the tree lines and the timber pockets. If you are in a good location on your hunt, you should start to see movement within about 10 minutes, if you are glassing from a distant hill or mountain. Most animals are skittish to come into bow range so most are shot using a gun or black powder firearms. “If you know for a fact that the game you are after is in the vicinity, you will have the confidence to wait until you spot them” (Ott). To scan correctly you should create a system that helps you scan efficiently. Most hunters use a system like a grid when scanning an area. They start at any spot and use a grid method, going from left to right, and then up anddown. The strategies for killing animals in the modern days are a lot different than the Native Americans had. The Native American and modern day hunters have some similar strategies and techniques in common. “Hunters would go out in groups, or individually to locate and harvest these animals” (Trotta). Hunters from a tribe would go out in a pack and trap then kill the animals, or they would go out individually to stalk the animals. Modern day hunters go out in groups, when they are duck and bird hunting, but they mostly hunt alone in a tree stand. “After an animal was skinned, the hide was processed by first removing the hair and any residual meat and fat left on the flesh side” (Trotta). The Native Americans, just like modern day hunters, made the hides that were scraped off into rugs or carpets. Both the modern day hunters and the
  • 5. Hickey 5 Native Americans used a frame to stretch out the hides before use. The techniques of using the hide for carpet are common to both the Native Americans and the modern day hunters. The Native Americans used the deer they killed for many purposes, and similarly the modern day hunters‟ use killed animals for many things as well. “White-tailed deer provide many uses of itself after being killed by a hunter” (Trotta). The Native Americans used the white-tailed deer for many purposes, like; ceremonial items, hammers, and fishing supplies. The modern day hunters use the deer that they harvest to get doe pee that hunters will put on their boots during rut, for bucks to come in to be killed. “Native American tribes also had various traditions of chasing down animals on foot” (Liebenberg). The Tarahumara Indians chased deer through the mountains of Northern Mexico until the animals collapsed from being exhausted and vitally wounded. The Paiutes and Navajo tribes in the American Southeast were said to hunt pronghorn antelope using this technique. The Aborigines Indians from Australia were also discovered using this interesting technique. The modern day hunters are very similar and different in many ways from the Native Americans, in the way they use their resources. The Native American Indians are very different from the modern day hunters, because they use their resources more wisely, make their own arrowheads, weapons, and their ways of stalking animals. The modern day hunters are different from the Native Americans, because they use cover scent so that the animals will not smell them, and sit in a tree in a stand and wait for animals to approach them.In this essay, I have compared and contrasted the modern day hunting styles and techniques with the way the Native Americans did it.If you really think about it, the modern day hunters could have looked upon the Native Americans, and took their techniques
  • 6. Hickey 6 and twisted them into different ways. So could you answer this question now? How are modern day hunters similar and different to the Native American hunters from history?