LaLoche, A Native Community
While engaged as a photoarcheologist on the Methy Portage project, I was the only team member with extensive training in Cultural Anthropology. There wasn't enough time to do a proper Ethnography but I was there long enough to establish a rappor with the local native people.

Many of my experiences with these people were situations straight out of the textbook. I had to ask myself whether or not some of them had studied Anthropology and were pulling my leg.  Given the history of the area, and the remoteness of the location, I had to assume what I encountered was in reality a validation of the textbooks.  One aspect of Cultural Anthropology I had been very aware of is what happens when two cultures collide.

I spent an extra month in the area after the other team members left.  The Native Community of LaLoche, population 350+, consisted of a Hudson's Bay Store, an independent General Supply Store, a DNR post, a primary school, an RCMP post, a Roman Catholic Church, and 27 residential homes. At the time 1968, LaLoche Saskatchewan had the highest birth rate in the entire world, with an average of 14 children per family.