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Science Before it was Science with Catherine Howard

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Interview · North Dakota · Catherine Howard · NDNAEU 6

Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Storytelling & oral tradition, Culture & continuity, Food & plants, Humor & play

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Learn About questions

In what ways does science impact our daily lives? What are examples of science in things like the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the homes we live in, the entertainment we enjoy, the sports we play, etc.? What are some examples of Native Americans’ knowledge of science in some of the more traditional ways of life?  Ex: food, shelter, clothing

Learn From questions

Where does my food come from? Is science involved in allowing me to have the food I need to survive?  How? What are some examples of how science has been a part of creating my home or the things within my home that allow me to live in it all year? Are there people in my family who know a lot about the natural world and how to care for it? Am I or anyone in my family involved in preserving food for my family? How?

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Like Native Americans we know a science way before science came we’d ride our own corn we’d ride anything that we eat which I deer meat and stuff nowadays you go inside a tester to have that little drive me you know we did that long time ago we’d ride on baa we never ditched I don’t know if mom ever did drive baas long time ago but my aunt one of my aunts uh science and what else can we put into housing like T was saying there’s so many different ways of building a house many years ago how we did it that first diamond sunaina like hay and like da straw the clay it’s like it’s with like a match like math when you do math in class you got a measure down log house see how big of a logout you want you got a measure done how did they measure how did they you know they just take I remember my dad all sticks on axis 1 2 3 4 that ax then he marks the destard a we saw is to work like a boy with my dad is sign off he looks well what are we doing this forever going to mother-in-law needs a house I’m tired of living with mother-in-law so you know I’ll stick to gia wonder how come my dad to like you know mother Laura or now after I found out okay so anyway you know so that’s matter you know and that could not cooked and then we had to take up would you call those tubs mama you’re starting then we’re G we went we went to places at that one time I always remember that mother law didn’t want this clay mother-in-law wants that clay that’s way down to it’s about like not of four miles my dad said hmm they brought that first clay back she didn’t want that on her house she wanted that other clay over to that so then my dad said well let’s go so we all jumped in and here that clay was kind of a beige color that clay and that CLE that she was trying to put on was gree she didn’t want that but you want that Beach you know so when they put that lockouts together when they put that together when they want then we paste it we mix that strong to them dirt and llywydd put water in there boy that’s what we used to always I like it because we could smash anything we want and then you just go back and then it’s like just when it dries so there is a lot of dirt that’s mat you know and you know in measurement and all that so but so during science is you know Dave we Deidre I remember when my grandma my aunt was in my aunt they had there’s a little town they called Cheyenne before you get to four-top if you go cut across and I think you’re not a normal that must be though and in 60s my aunt was a new my cousin went and brought some baas back he she said and I thought we were gonna work daughter Shoshanna wanna go path to shelter I don’t like baas it’s on your I was bringing baas she said she said Laura chanted it to be a hoppy that’s all they had there and lead her on her washing dishes and I asked my aunt I shall come dr.Donna and I washed a dish that’s how come he doing like baas she said shine store they have baa I guess you used to hang him up and all up in the ceiling in the baas hanging and you could pick as much you wanna buy and she said they walked in there and now introduced in here that guy that owned that story told my dad and that was my dad’s sister he told him he said you know he said in those baas he said they must have shipped them wherever they came he said that’s what I found in there he said he said he had a great big jar like this there was a yellow or yellow a kind of orange the same color of that baas he said there was a snake in there that’s why my aunt’s never wanted to Bible now every time I look at a baa I’ll see that really look good see if you see how it’s naked yes that’s where she never did like baas after that yeah she hated baas yeah

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