We are going to see Before Tomorrow tonight in Toronto. I am looking forward to it.
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17 February 2009
Published March 3, 2009 hunter gatherer , primal blueprint , primal diet ClosedTags: fish oil supplementation, hunter gatherer, primal, primal blueprint
Everyone knows fish oil is good but I couldn’t really understand how people would have primitively extracted the oil from fish. Extracting oil seems like a pretty high tech process, right? But nope, fish oil is a totally primitive food. The Tsimshian people in British Columbia actually made fish oil and used it to supplement their diet! They would gather Eulachon fish, then let them rot and then boil them and skim off the oil.
How lucky we are these days to benefit from professional quality processing of high quality fish oil. Although we don’t get the benefit of all the exercise that it takes to catch those fish and boil them up. Nor do we get to go fishing in boats in seas teeming with fish, feeling the salty sea air and sun on our faces. Nor do we get to say the prayers of gratitude to the fish as we catch them and use their bodies to nourish us.
15 February 2009
Published February 15, 2009 film review , hunter gatherer ClosedTags: canada, film review, hunter gatherer, inuit, inuit film, iqaluit, primal, primal blueprint
We watched this movie, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, last night. It was filmed on location in Iqualuit by an Inuit film company.
Amazing production values. Amazing storytelling. I loved the way it moved slowly but was not boring at all. Totally in Inuktitut. And totally Inuit actors and film crew. The production company is 75% Inuit owned. 
Check out the walrus tooth necklace.
Reminded me so much of reading about Farley Mowat’s Caribou eaters, although the caribou eaters would have said they’re nothing like the Seal and Walrus hunters.
These people were totally living the original primal lifestyle. Lots of freshly killed seafood, game and the occasional bird in the form of seals, walrus, fish, caribou and ptarmigan. It also showed them eating eggs they had collected from nests. In the movie they ate some berries in the summertime but other than that they stayed away from vegetable matter, not that any was really available in the area. I also noticed they didn’t eat any seaweed even though there was plenty of that around. Hmmm.
I can’t wait to see Ce Qu’il Faut Pour Vivre (The Necessities of Life) which stars the main actor, Natar Ungalaaq, from Atanarjuat, but is not directed or producted by Isuma. It’s about the outbreak of tuberculosis among First Nations people in Canada’s north in the 1950s.
