title: Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?
author:  Bernelda Wheeler 
description: Bernelda Wheeler was an award-winning author, journalist, radio host, and broadcaster. She also worked in the field of alcoholism as a rehabilitation counsellor. Shortly before her death In 2005, she was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Anskohk Aboriginal Literacy Festival.
zlib_text: Last of the Breed Chapter 8 That evening, spreading out the reindeer hide, he
  drew a tracing of each foot. Allowing for the sides, he carefully cut out the
  selected sections. Bringing up the two sides, he used thin strips to stitch
  them together at the heel and then at the toe. After trying them on, he made
  holes for the laces of rawhide. A hide such as he had before him would easily
  make nine pair of moccasins. He made only four pair, knowing they would
  quickly wear out but needing the remainder of the hide for rawhide strings.
  For cold weather he would need much better footwear, but there would be time
  for that later. Moccasins such as these, made from poorly treated skins, would
  not last long, but for the present they must do. The hide he had used had not
  been well prepared because of the lack of time and the necessity for travel.
  Made from a properly treated hide, the moccasins would last much longer. In
  the morning, the air was clear and cold. From where he sat his eyes could
  swee