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Getting Ready for Winter with Angeline Fourth Iron Road

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Interview · North Dakota · Angeline Fourth Iron Road · NDNAEU 1

Themes: Kinship & family, Education & learning, Food & plants, Listening & observation, Humor & play, Intergenerational learning

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Learn About questions

How did gardens help people prepare for winter in the past? What is a root cellar? Why was it needed? What is wasna? Why was it an important food for the people in the past? What is tripe and how is it prepared? Why is it important to still understand how to garden and preserve foods today?

Learn From questions

What is my own experience with gardening? How does growing my own food change my relationship to it? What is my own experience with preserving food from hunting? Gardening? Fishing? Canning? Are there things I do to prepare for winter? How aware am I of where my food comes from? What are some things I learned by watching someone else?

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Angeline Fourth Iron Road- Getting Ready for Winter, NDNAEU 1

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Being raised with a grand grandparents so these things that we have to do so we get ready though for winter like oh they used to have a big Garden all the big garden stuff and put them in root showers or either in the in the house you have a little um I don’t know what you call them the uh little show and then put them in there for the winter to because there’s no fridge in them days when where my grandfather was so we learn to make what now cherries and we dry meat we help our grandmother and then the tripe from the cow the stomach that’s what we help clean and then we my grandmother always teach us how to we want to play but we have to learn these things so I’m glad that they taught us all this and then they should go on but nobody does all those things everything now since it’s all this EBT and all this are coming on they want the fresh pizzas and cold meat they don’t think about how they’re going to survive the next day because if that runs out then there nothing to eat and then they don’t they don’t know how to put a garden in but uh being there for them I teach them you should just do it around your house get a little shovel do this but you know these are the things we need to teach the younger generation

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NDNAEU document credits: Angeline Fourth Iron Road — Standing Rock (Lakota).

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