Autumn, or what we call it in Yellowknife, “Pre-Winter” is a great time of the year, there’s leafs falling down, (not Leaf Jr of course), pumpkins growing in gardens, and of course, Chilly conditions at the burial grounds. But since we call it an early winter, we have to deal with snowstorms during practices, with temperatures diving below zero, you are gonna need some hot hands in your pocket if you want to keep up in these conditions. One thing that makes autumn brutal here, is the slave lake across the town, floods naturally during this time of year, limiting locations you can go throughout the wilderness. You could try and swim in the river, but you’ll probably either freeze to death or even worse, drown or die from an angry whale. We do have some good stuff though here, for example in November, someone would make us a feast (most likely Videl or Leaf) and thrown in some stuff from their hometown, for example leaf would throw in lobster tails and shrimp, and Videl would add in a couple Japanese dishes, along with the traditional bear meat and salmon dishes. In Yellowknife we call that the “Heritage Feast” , completes every first Monday in November at sundown.
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