“Traditional Foods” with Patricia Lawrence

Right now I’m using sage for my respiratory it is good for a respiratory it’s good for a lot of things up until this hill here I used to train up there all our medicines are up there but we can’t pick them because it’s a state part but I when I was at the college ice teach at the college our culture I stayed students up there now we look for the medicines up there and I called the manager and she got me some little cuz I said training up there she got me some look she made some little um like brochures from me with the names on them and so I gave them to the kids and they went and looked for all the medicines up there’s a lot of our wild vegetables up there too a lot of our wild fruits and those are all up there so I take the kids up there to look for these plants and the college really get we call them tips in there they’re like rutabagas you know we go and get them the sacred Hill up there they called Baja walk on that was full of tips inna and it still is we just go up turn pick’em there’s a we get a lot of sage here we got a lot of down the park me for just smell smells really good sweet grass it’s down there and we got our sink tab because seeing patterns like bitter root that’s um muskrat food so that and I must grass crossing paths so we you know we have that here to dinner water grows in the water so we have a lot of this stuff I grew up with my grandparents and grandparents great-grandparents telling me my grandmother telling me my grandfather Papa saw you know all this stuff there’s a lot of different that better sent here there’s quite a bit that I learned growing up that’s why you know when I teach our culture and language I take them to these things and show them oh we have my grandma taught me how to can or a while Barry’s doing berries and plums and I got choked cherries right now I make whoopee you know on there you don’t use the seed you use the Hampi you know the juice so I have that we have that in the winter and a lot of its dried a lot of it is drying my grandma said to when they were traveled our people they would they would carry that with them all the time because they travel and then when it was time to have fresh meat and they went out and you know hunted when they camped and stuff yes there was my grandma said to her she said when they were going down their River Adam in Minnesota that’s where they were camping that’s before that war and here some I think was a boat coming down the river and here they start shooting at them because they’d seen them there and your probably talked ever wild or something but they ended up dying anyway so when they went to swim to that boat they had a bunch of bags of yellow rocks so they took those yellow rocks and they buried them right alongside the shore sure didn’t know what they were but they thought if they got caught are gonna have that and they’ll kill them too so they buried them and my grandma said they just left him there so they’re probably their subject if they know where he found them but stories like that you know my grandma Esther when she was that a soda uprising stole my grandma all that so my grandma taught us we never wrote them down there or anything we just tellin you know I’ll tell my my younger son because he speaks learning this Vita article ten language so he’s more interested in that than my other my other two older ones but they understand my older ones because my grandmother and Jim were was still alive when they were growing up and once in a while to come up with a few words I said you need to learn that we’re losing it so I told my kids you have to