CE980 ISAPO-MUXIKA (Crowfoot)

Drum made by Drum Maker & Traditional Knowledge Keeper Jaron Weaselbear, Soyaniskiipoyii (Singing In The Water), from the Blackfoot Piikani Nation in Southern Alberta, Canada. If you wish to order one of his esteemed traditional drums, You can contact him at jaronweaselbear@yahoo.ca

OVERVIEW

Tough - Efficient - Unique, your CANADA Enduring - CE980 ISAPO-MUXIKA is literally feather-light . Handmade in Canada and holding a revolutionary locking system, there is nothing to compare it to. Your CANADA Enduring - C980 ISAPO-MUXIKA  pocket knife is so unique, no other knife operate or look quite like it. Its unique look comes from the innovative mechanisms it carries. Those inventions dictate the final result.

The quality of the material and the simplicity of the design are what makes your CANADA Enduring knife solid and reliable.

Your CE knife is the result of countless crafting hours on our family ranch located on the Cowboy Trail between the beautiful villages of Pincher Creek and Waterton, Alberta Canada. It can take up to 2 weeks from start to finish for a single knife to be crafted. If you would like to purchase one of these exclusive knives in person, you can find them at the Tamarack Outdoors outlet in Waterton.

All components of your knife (from the blade, handle, pins, rivets to the pocket clip) are individually made, shaped, and/or adjusted to fit your unique CE knife.

For durability, the blade is hand-crafted from the best knife grade stainless steel.

All CANADA Enduring knife handles are made of hard Chokecherry or Saskatoon wood (Depending on resource availability). Both woods carefully harvested, by hand in the wild, at the foot of the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

The first part of the model name CE980 comes from the blade length 98.0mm / 4". The second part of the model name ISAPO-MUXIKA is in honour of the great Blackfoot Siksika Nation chief Isapo-Muxika (Crowfoot) 1830-1890. His father, Istowun-Ehʼpata (Packs a Knife), and mother, Axkahp-Say-Pi (Attacked Towards Home), were Kainai. He was five years old when his father was killed during a raid on the Crow tribe. A year later, his mother remarried to Akay-Nehka-Simi (Many Names) of the Siksika people among whom he was brought up. Crowfoot was a warrior who fought in as many as nineteen battles and sustained many injuries, but he tried to obtain peace instead of warfare. Crowfoot is well known for his involvement in Treaty Number 7 and did much negotiating for his people. Isapo-Muxika was perceptive and a farseeing diplomat. A remarkable peacemaker. The invasion of his ancestral territories taking place simultaneously to the tragic disappearance of the Buffalo (American bison) was a complete disaster.  The Buffalo was the living foundation of the Blackfoot and of many other Indigenous nations across the plains.

Creating your CANADA Enduring knife, we were inspired by true heroes of our Canadian history. Professional voyagers, translators, trappers, hunters, Coureur de bois, fur traders... All Indigenous, Metis, Canadiens, and settlers’ extraordinary beings. True legends of this unforgivably hard, but incredibly beautiful land. Therefore, the traditional look of your knife. It feels like you traded furs for it, at Fort Kaministiquia, in the 1700. A lasting contemporary message... from another time.

Many years from now, when the time comes, we are hoping you will pass down this amazing knife to your descendants... because this is just how tough we made it

We warranty every CANADA Enduring knife, for the life of the knife - See our Lifetime Enduring Warranty.

*Please take note that the wood grain and colour of your knife handle will be different from the above pictures since all CANADA Enduring knives are made from individual tree collected in the wild.

**Our Canadian knives are famous around the world and they leave our ranch almost as soon as they are crafted. If a knife shows SOLD OUT contact us and we will arrange for your knife to be crafted on our next availability.