Day 11

On day 11 we all had left from Walpinit middle/ High School after doing some blogging then had hit the road for a bit and then we had stopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods store. When we had stopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods everybody had to get one pair of pants and one shirt because of us not being able to wash clothes. While I was in the store I had got to get some sweats and I had gotten a Russell Wilson T-shirt and while waiting for everyone else I had gone over to the weight sets and had started to pump some weights until it was time to get up to the cash register. When it was time to get to the register we all had gave Jessica are clothes and she had paid for the clothes. While Jessica was paying for the clothes I went over to the baseball section and then I had saw the nicest wooden bat it was all brown on the Barrel and black on the handle. The bat was pretty nice and only costs $ 49.99 after tax and made me wish that I had money left over. After Jessica paid for the clothes we had all loaded back up on the vans and had took off to get to Coeur D’Alene. When we got to Coeur D’Alene we had got there just in time to be able to go to the Coeur D’Alene Tribe Fishery and got to meet Laura, Gena, and Bobby National Recourses Educational Specialists.
 

                When we got to the Coeur D’Alene Tribe Fisheries Laura had showed us a presentation about the Chatq’ele meaning Coeur D’Alene Lake and how it was Sq’e qhq’ eqhtet meaning “ Are lively hood, our gem”. Then she had talked to us about two rivers flown through the lake and ended back together in one point. Also and Elder of the Coeur D’Alene Tribe named Felix Aripa had said, “We lived off the lake, our hearts, souls, and minds were there. Then in 1842 was the arrival of the black robes and brought with them diseases and other things like rats and mice, along with head lice. Also after the arrival of the black robes they had brought small pocks which had wiped out thousands of Native Americans and dropped in how many were left from being 5,000 going down to 500 still living. Then later on when the native tribes and U.S military started to have problems they had started to slaughter each other to death. Then after the U.S military wanted to punish the tribes that were involved- in August of 1858, Col. Wright Led Campaign. After that was all done U.S had completed the Mullen Road in 1862. Then in 1 year alone (1866) 20,000 people had traveled the road. After the presentation Laura had showed us a video about how U.S had tried to wipe us out but failed completely because of how strong the Natives Hearts were and that we would not leave our Home where we live for many generations and will not stop now. Then after the presentation we all went down to the longhouse and had a first Traditional Dinner that they had never had for more than a decade ago.

                When we had got to the dinner we all had gathered around and sat at tables and Listened to the lady that had out the Traditional dinner together talk about how its been a long time since having one of their Traditional Dinners. While she had talked about the dinner and the foods and how the roots and the berries had stepped forth to help feed the men along with the deer and salmon also stepping forth. And then after she had some dancers from White Swan dance to the Swan Dance and had them show about another song where a man an a women were madly in love and one day the man had went out for a hunt with  other men from the tribe but he did not come back after the hunt. After the man had not came back the women was very sad and depressed, then after she saw a caterpillar going from that to a beautiful butterfly and dancing to each flower at a time. Then they had made a song and dance to the story and the girls from White Swan got to dance to the song. After the songs the two ladies had sang a song while the girls had served the food on the table, after they were done with serving the food we did the traditional line up of the important foods and she had named them all of one by one and we took a sample off the food and took a bite then finally after the food we had a drink of water and she named it off. After naming off the food we all were all able to eat, then while eating she named off people’s names and gave them blankets and other things. Finally after we ate we cleaned our area then the lady had said that they were having basketball tournaments and canoe races along with swimming. After everyone was getting on the cars, Sullyvan and I had seen a bowl of fruit and a man had said the fruit was soaked in huckleberry juice. After Sullyvan and I got some of the fruit we all got loaded up on the cars and we started to head out to the camp.

                When we had got to the camp area we had got lost and did not know where the camp was so we kept driving and driving till we finally found where we were supposed to be at. When the Camp Owner showed us where we were camping at we had started to set up our tents and when we all did everyone was slanted at and angle because of the shape of the hill side. When we finally got set up we all just started to chill and waited for 10:00 to come so we all could go to bed. When it was 9:30 was when Jessica had handed out everyone’s clothes then everyone went to their tents and went to sleep.