Interview · North Dakota · Mary Bateman · NDNAEU 1 · NDNAEU 6
Themes: Land & stewardship, Kinship & family, Food & plants, Intergenerational learning
Learn About questions
What animals are hunted in North Dakota?
What kinds of edible plants are found in North Dakota?
What crops are grown in North Dakota and where are they grown?
What animals are found on North Dakota ranches?
How are plants preserved?
What is “dagaatch?”
How would the dried corn and chokecherries be used in the winter?
Learn From questions
What is my family’s experience with farming?
Are there ways that my family currently “lives off the land?”
Do I harvest or use plants found in nature? How is that different from a planned garden?
Do I know where the food that I eat comes from?
How does it change my relationship to my food when I either grow it myself or know where it comes from?
Transcripts
NDNAEU 1 & 6 Living Off the Land with Mary Bateman
Watch this interview on YouTubeMy dad used to out your they used to like to go hunting people is to write to go hunting so they go aunt in now groups and you know they went down to the woods now it’s all underwater but you know of course it was a dear and you know and different down animals that they m have Gary chickens and all that she knows and now of course and then they used to have cattle you have so many cows they used to have a you had to have a come up Gator before you can kill one of your collars a permit you know and out there around you know and they’re an ID on there but Jane you know you’re you had to certain brand but they always had an idea there but you have to have a permit you know if you wanted to kill and then of course they made them giving drive me I was going to say da cash in the word yeah they’re aimed at you know and then they put it away and then of course you cook it with other around with other things you know and there and then of course if that’s your corn and you got your squash and they dried squash I could see my by a bit of very good and they had to skype or you know they what I remembered they had to scaffold I just oh I’m so glad that I you know that I able to see what they did you know my mother and I made my grandmother’s and they drive the squash and they may put it up there and they go I dried and then of course the chokecherry they had a little stone this is good going way back yeah look stoke and it had a little I supposed to know for doing that all the time read a little dent in them and then they have that dinner and then and they made little patties and they put that about their two in them and then corn they em they put the corn there’s some no wood every now oh and I they put the card on there and they just started the fire and then we had to have something and then they kept the corn obviously you know and then they drive them to i-i’ve actually there’s other rod tribes probably had the same technique kiddo so yeah so that’s what they say as survivals imagine a long time ago you know what they did to go to them survived being or during the wintertime beside them they’re dry meek and other things they hand out put up you know during the during the summertime
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