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Ronald Paul: When the beaver season comes in the fall of the year, I’d go into it heavy. People were poor back then, they were harder, you remember that? Half the reserve, I raised half the reserve during the hard times. There were not one family on the reserve that didn’t eat beaver, you remember that? Interviewer: I tasted it, I thought it was good, almost like chicken to me when I had it. Ronald Paul: Ah! When we get a fresh beaver, I always wait for the real good one, I always had the first meal, after that I didn’t do them. Cause my parents always say, always get one for yourself, before you start out, that way you won’t be wondering. When you eat something first he said, then you can work with it. So I did. Some of them looked just like beef, nice and white, God, and fat.
