DCHP-3

little sticks

North
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the stunted trees on the edge of the barrens.

Quotations

1947
The far Northern part of Manitoba, where the forests peter out into the "little sticks" on the edge of the barrens, is inhabited mainly by a few bands of Chipewyan Indians. . . .
1956
. . . big generous fires were a source of surprise and pleasure to them after the "little sticks" of the Barrens. . . .
<i>c</i>1902
The regular Northern hunters do not go so far as the Arctics, but choose their hunting-ground somewhere in the region of "little sticks."