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alexseanchai) wrote2013-05-13 12:04 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2013-05-13 12:04 pm
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21 Days of Dreamwidth Meme
16. What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about?
Last week the local state park and the state Sierra Club hosted a former chief of a local Native American tribe to talk about the lifestyle of his tribe before the Europeans came. I was particularly struck by how he described catching fish--the older boys would build a not-quite-dam across a stream, something that funneled the fish to a single point that let a single fish through at a time, and the little kids would line up across the stream behind the school and walk downstream throwing pebbles and acorn caps to scare the fish towards the not-dam, so the older boys could catch the fish as they single-filed through the gap in the not-dam, then bring the fish to the older girls for cleaning and cooking. So all the kids knew they had an important role to play in feeding the tribe.
16. What are you glad you did but haven't really had a chance to post about?
Last week the local state park and the state Sierra Club hosted a former chief of a local Native American tribe to talk about the lifestyle of his tribe before the Europeans came. I was particularly struck by how he described catching fish--the older boys would build a not-quite-dam across a stream, something that funneled the fish to a single point that let a single fish through at a time, and the little kids would line up across the stream behind the school and walk downstream throwing pebbles and acorn caps to scare the fish towards the not-dam, so the older boys could catch the fish as they single-filed through the gap in the not-dam, then bring the fish to the older girls for cleaning and cooking. So all the kids knew they had an important role to play in feeding the tribe.