DCHP-1 Online
little sticks North 
the stunted trees on the edge of the barrens.
See also: Land of (the) Little Sticks
- c1902 The regular Northern hunters do not go so far as the Arctics, but choose their hunting-ground somewhere in the region of "little sticks."
- 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. . . .
- c1902 The regular Northern hunters do not go so far as the Arctics, but choose their hunting-ground somewhere in the region of "little sticks."