A small caravan of the Yutlengit forms a long line out of the rural mountain village, as the snow thaws they continue their journey through to the heart of Alaska.
Alrighty so Caravans
While the world isnt super connected in the awakening period there is still a not isignificant amount of intraregional trade and sometimes, interegional trade that goes on throughout societies all over the Dragonscape. The trade of luxury goods that are regionally specific (such as sea shells) to more practical matters of tools and clothing, information and labor are all common things that tie communities together and many societies send out drek caravans to see to the barter and enriching of the home culture.
So drek caravans Generally are united as a pack of a larger den or, sometimes in some cultures, entire dens that travel and barter. Generally speaking animal domestication isn't the most common thing though isn't unheard of, though in most cases animal domestication is done by pastoralist peoples who have spent well over 30 years trying to domesticate animals that usually more lean on the utility of food or resources rather than as pack animals
So most drekir caravans lack much in the way of pack animals which works out fine, drekir themselves are basically pack animals and if each drek carries a pack and each other drek a travois then they can carry some large loads long distances easily.
Drek caravans tend to travel along the same routes consistently, swooping by villages within a broader trade network to exchange goods on both sides before moving along to the next village, so on and so forth until they hit back to their home village and settle in with all the ill gotten gains
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Bartering in these contexts is very much about what is regionally available as resources are not universal. The trade of metals like copper and aluminum are really important as many regions lack easy access to those resources. Likewise luxury materials that one of the trading groups cannot have or make are also very popular.
So everything from alcohol and jewelry beads, carved ivory or PVC plastics, premade bags or woolyrm wool raw for processing. Even tools and weapons that are hard to make to one society or the other. Often times labor and services are also traded, so sometimes caravaneers might help protect a village from a local bandit den or rival den/ broader tribal group, or they might help around the village in the processing of meats or the building of structures
So its pretty common for the time a caravan spends in a village to vary between a day to a week or two, which is also dependent on the weather (would be cruel to force a caravan out into a freak snowstorm in September after all)
And its generally a win win, the caravan takes back things they couldn't source or make otherwise and the villages they hit up usually also get a good deal by getting rid of things they have an abundance of for objects and materials from places they could never travel to in a more general sense.

Now for the Yutlengit

The Yutlengit, also known as the tribes of the masquerade by the Seattlens, are a larger tribal society of Den Inclusive, natalocal, sedentary fishing and foraging peoples that live along the northern PNW coast along what is the modern day Alaskan Southeastern coasts, mountains, and archipelago.
They are known to be some of the longest range traders in the awakening period with well established trade routes as far northwest as the Otgolok, Ankor, and Kobuks of Alaska and as far south as the Seattlens, Bõmei, and Northern Scorcher groups of Washington. As well as far eastwards as to have a lot of trade links with the Scraelinger.
so they get around a lot and they do this to engage in a very large network of trade that they helm. Packs from dens within a village take yearly cycles in a dedicated route to trade amongst various peoples, particularly with the exchange of plentiful materials they have locally for materials that they don't. This is everything from finely carved antler pipes and furry scalehides from the local wildlife to workable natural lithic materials, boats and sometimes specifically to the Scraelinger, slaves (more on that thorny bed later)
And in return they trade these goods mostly for scavenged materials. Metal nuggets of aluminum or copper as well as intact scraps, plastics of all shapes and sizes, and glass. From the Scraelinger particularly they often are paid in magical knowledge and with much of the manufacturing knowledge they had learned from the sivilão
which is generally quite valuable
So the Yutlengit are a very wealthy people indeed thanks to all of their trading and, over time these trade routes strengthen political bonds in the broader PNW coast
As for the slave thing.
Awkward
The Yutlengit cosmology of the Pulse is that demons had stolen the humanity of the 1st generation and cursed all generations after to be as the demons were while those same demons charade around as humans. So after human colonization starts up in the region with the occasional SEAC outpost or Japanese outpost the Yutlengit simply view those humans as demons who are holding humanity within them. They believe that through drekification they can extract that essence and put it into themselves, either becoming more human or at the very least exacting vengeance upon the demon that stole their humanity
They often take these newly drekified colonials and do one of a few things with them. They either integrate into Yutlengit society, are let go to do their own thing in the woods (they aren't perceived as dangerous after drekification) or they are sold up to the Scraelinger who often use them as slaves in return to scraelinger magical materials or knowledge...
of course large populations of these drekir either escape slavery or negotiate with the Yutlengit for release and most of those people are the Bõmei of southeast british columbia
which of course makes the yutlengit caravans... awkward