2018 People Of Big River Feild Class

july 20,2018  today is going to be a forestry day, we went to go meet Lance Lelone he told us about what we will be doing today, he then introduced us to Clinton Desautal, he is a firefighter, he has been in the firefighting business for 18 years. He said Smokey the Bear is a firefighters worst enemy, because he wants all fires to be put out. He went to college for five years pretty much to play football, then he started firefighting. I like how he said " when you know all about fire, it's time to retire" I like it, because it tells you that when you know everything about fire your gonna start getting selfish, and try to do everything by yourself.  We stopped at the old 99 county road to see where they did a prescribed burn and how it turned out afterwards. Lance and Clinton showed us all the different types of trees, and how the forest company doesn't want the big trees anymore, because they are not as valuable as the little trees. Lance, took us to a beach and showe

july 19, 2018  It was really fun, Lucy Luevano, she works at The Confederated Tribes Of The Colville Reservation, she works as a TCP (Traditional Cultural Preservation officer). she gave us some advice about our language, she said, "no matter what language you speak, don't let the governement tell you, you can't speak it, because it's the connection to your people, and it's how you communicate with one another." When everyone got done introducing ourselves to her we left to go to the Omak Stampede where we saw "the mountain race", it's called the mountain race, because it's a big hill where you race down as fast as you can into a river.  We went to a museum in Okanogan, there we met Amanda she worked at the museum, she said that they built it where they did, because it was already a Native trading spot. It was really cool! I liked how they added stories to everything they had in there. they had a couple of quotes that i liked it was, "Ev

  July 17,2018     We went to the Camas wellness center where we met Ray, he told us that they said they first built it in 2006. it has 100+ kids for daycare, it is a urgent care facility ,and dental. its the only medical center in the county. there is only 30 people who have their AA, bachelors, and masters who works there. We got to go to the Kalispell tribal fish Hatchery, where I learned about all the different types of fish. They had Rainbow trout, Cut throat and, Bull trout, there was a bunch of little tiny fish called the cut throat trout and i put my had in the water, and surprisingly they didn't get scared, they calmly swam over or under my hand.  Later, we went back the wellness center, and we played a little bit of volleyball, and basketball, after we went to go change into our swimsuits and then MaCayla and I went into the steam room, and sat in there for about twenty minuets, then we went to swim. we played ball tag with Xavier, Kyle, MaCayla, Rudy, and Omar. at first

JULY 16,2018     Today was a fun day when I woke, I wasn’t expecting to run a mile, but Warren told me to get shoes on, because I was gonna run with them, I met Xavier, and Kyle. Warren brought them to run with Me, Caleb, and Taylor.It was really fun, I was scared, because I haven’t ran in so long, i asked Warren if it was to late to back out of running because I was scared but turns out, it wasn’t that hard. Kyle was my running buddy, he told me, my time was around nine or ten minuets. Xavier ran with Caleb and Taylor.     we met BJ and Vernon. Bj was a fuel manager and Vernon is a firefighter, he gave us a presentation about fuel management and everything they do.     finally we met George, he taught us the different types of trees, and how they grow them, they grow them by cutting a pine cone open and taking seeds out of it.     then we went to a creek, where we found little speckled dais, and we had waiters well some of us. and the ones who had waiters on got to shock the fish and

july 15,2018     it’s the second day at Wellpinit, so far we met two guys. Warren and Francis. Francis brought a drum, and taught us how to drum, and he told us that he only sings songs from his tribe, because one time his friend took a song from another tribe and one guy got mad at for it, so he doesn't want to start any trouble, he said if he only sings songs from his tribe no one can get mad at him for it.     when Warren got here he told Taylor and I to go and drum with the group. I was scared at first, because i had no idea how to drum, and he just said that i need to have rhythm, eventually all the campers had to drum. after drumming and singing songs in the Wellpinit tribe. when we were done with that we went to a look out and met a guy who stays there and watches for fires, i forgot his name, but i was really scared to go up there, because i'm scared of heights. it was also really scary going down, because i had to look down and it looked really high for me and the step

July 14,2018     today was an easy day, we didn’t do anything, but travel all day. It was pretty boring for the first part, so I took a nap, when I woke back up I had so much energy, that I rolled down the windows and started yelling at random people asking if they wore their seat belts, if they did I would say “good job, I'm proud of you!!” and if they didn't I would say “you better put your seatbelt on!!” one time we stopped at a stop light and this guy had his window down and I yelled at him saying “good job” for having his seatbelt on and he yelled something back, but we started driving so I couldn't hear what he said. after that we turned on some Taylor Swift songs and listened to her music for awhile, then we stopped at a store to get gas and I asked this women who pulled up right next to us if she wore her seat belt and she smiled and said “one hundred percent, all the time” and I said “good job!!”.     when we got to Tri-cities we stopped at a laundromat to wash and