Trapping - Fur Institute of Canada

LEARNING RESOURCES AND BIBILIOGRAPHY:The following should be mandatory materials:1) Manitoba Trapper Education Handbook2) AIHTS Instructors Curriculum for AIHTS Workshops for AboriginalInstructors (published by Fur Institute of Canada, 2004/ 2005) www.fur.ca.3) “Aboriginal Trapping and the AIHTS (25 minute video) Sept. 2001.4) “Fur: Fabric of a Nation” (26 minute video on the steps of producing worldclass furs- from trappers to designers to manufacturers). Fur Council ofCanada. www.furcouncil.com.5) Pelt handling manuals.6) DVD set “Focus on Trapping”. Published by the Fur Institute of Canada,www.fur.ca7) Furbearers of Canada: Booklet published by the Fur Institute of Canada8) “The Fur Trade and the opening of Canada” Fur Institute of CanadaThe following can provide scope and ideas for Instructors:9) “Sustainable Forest Ecosystems”, by Manitoba Model Forest and ManitobaEducation, Citizenship and Youth. (Bob Austman).10) “Trappers: Stewards of the Land”. A booklet on trappers’ role in themanagement, stewardship, and conservation of furbearers. Fur Institute ofCanada, 2003. www.fur.ca11) “A Way of Life”. Government of the NWT. 1986. Includes recipes, trap sets,notes on humane trapping, as well as chapters on making waterproof kamiksand snowshoes.12) BC Trapper Education Manual. By the BC Trappers’ Association. One ofthe most comprehensive and up to date trapper’s manuals. By Hatler andBeal.13) North American Fur Auctions (NAFA) in Winnipeg- gives tours by request.14) Thompson Fur Tables, in Thompson MB.15) Guidelines for Trapper Education Course Curricula in Canada, by FIC(also included in DVD set for “Focus on Trapping”)16) Wild Furbearer Management and Conservation in North America, 1999,edited by Novak et al. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources; DVD (wasoriginally in book form) produced by Ontario Fur Managers Federation,North Bay.17) The Alaska Native Knowledge Network (ANKN) is an AKRSI partner,established to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and thegeneral public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska Nativeshave acquired through cumulative experience over millennia.http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/6