Tasheena Seymour

By Randi-Marie Adams

Lheidli T’enneh start programs on hide preparation and build new smokehouse

Jun 24, 2022 | 5:23 PM

LHEIDLI T’ENNEH – Community members took part in moose hide preparation workshops over the last couple of days.

In these workshops, they were able to show, with the help of Elder Baker how to prepare the hide for use down the road. Elder Baker says there are using two different processes when it comes to fleshing the hide.

” The one they are working on here is dry and then there is wet scraping as well. So dry scraping, you scrap the inside where it’s against the flesh. It’s called fleshing,” explains Elder Baker ” You take all the flesh off.”

The other way of “fleshing” is called Wet Scraping

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” You take the hide and you soak it in water or put it in the river or a bucket of water for ten days to two weeks and it gets pretty ripe so you can’t have a weak stomach.”

While this work continues, they are also in the process of building a new smokehouse, something that all of the members can use to stay self-sufficient and do what their ancestors did before them.

“The Smokehouse we wanted for our cultural programming. Every year we do fish camps and now that COVID has kind of settled down, we are starting up in-person programming again,” said Tasheena Seymour, who is the Family Development Coordinator for Lheidli T’enneh. “We are very much looking forward to hosting those culture camps again.”

Thankfully, they had the help of Men of the North, who pre-built some of the shack to assemble when they landed here in Lheidli T’enneh territory. The smokehouse assembly began just before noon today and according to organizers will be read to smoke Friday evening.

There will be more activities and workshops in the months to come and Tamara Seymore says it’s open to everyone, not just Lheidli T’enneh members. Next month, they will take the hide they prepared and tanned and turn them into drums.