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Ronald Paul: My father, my grandparents, and the rest of the Indians, they used to work all day to prepare for the trapping season. We used to laugh at, we’d go there they’d split a big maple, long, thick maple and make the toboggans. And then the leather is tied on there, they had to make that now, within a day. Now and then them things, they slap you right in the face. Everybody had to get ready to prepare for it. This was like March weather because everything runs on top of the crust. They’d get snowshoes made, toboggans, then they’d go out and chase moose or deer.