Life in Fort Severn

Richard Skunk spends a good deal of his time in Fort Severn hunting. He hunts fowl, like ducks and geese, as well as several larger animals like caribou and polar bears. He prepares all of the meat that he kills by himself. Most of his hunting skills have been learned from other members of the community, including his grandparents, aunts and uncles. There is a sort of community knowledge when it comes to these kinds of activities, one which he has been able to draw on remarkably well. He feels that hunting is something to be proud of in and around Fort Severn.
His childhood was relatively regular for a kid in Fort Severn, he started hunting around the time he turned seven years old and was hunting alone by the time he was 14. By this time he felt fully confident of himself in the bush near his community. He had a brother and five other sisters, therefor he was one of seven children. The only times that he leaves his community to go to more populated areas are during medical trips (to Sioux Lookout or Thunder Bay) and training operations for the Canadian Rangers.
Richard has also accomplished other things during his life in fort Severn. He is proud of his accomplishments with the Canadian Rangers, a part of the national defense team involved with Search and Rescue operations in the north. He joined the rangers in 97, and has been involved in various training exercises ever since. Every now and then he and the other rangers will fly to an area near Toronto and participate in a training camp. There they will do workshops and practical exercises of marksmanship, tracking, general survival skills and other activities in the same vein. The skills that he has learned with the Rangers are useful in his day to day life, when he is hunting. If he were to get lost in the bush they would be invaluable to him then too.
Over the course of Richard's life in Fort Severn he has gains a vast array of skills that help him in his hunting and pursuit of the traditional ways of his culture.