Tag: Maidu
Weye Edis (Language Persists)
January 22, 2013
FacebookTwitteremailShare…Susanville Indian Rancheria Project: Language restoration and perpetuation Each time we lose a language, we lose the perspective and ideas inherent in it and part of the core of what it means to be a human being. We lose an idea that has been developed through time. A way of interaction and all that is contained […]
Meadow Restoration
March 19, 2012
FacebookTwitteremailShare…Pulum Koyo: Year 1800 and 2011; Future To be Determined (Pulum Koyo means Grinding Rock Meadow in the Maidu language) Late Summer 1800; Pulum Koyo. Singing softly, a woman, ceanothus and redbud pack basket beside her, uses her mahogany digging stick to pry the papam tubers from the ground. Later she will string them and […]
My Taste of “Tuli”
November 25, 2011
Although I co-authored a book on “Living Wild” and regularly teach classes encouraging locals to sample our native foods, I found my personal edge when I was asked to eat our local grasshopper…The day started out well, with a beautiful fall sky and a group of eager students ready to explore Bear Valley, a meadow habitat just east of Nevada City on Highway 20. I was assisting Farrell Cunningham, a Maidu language instructor….
Why Bother to Live Wild?
April 22, 2011
FacebookTwitteremailShare…Welcome to the first seasonal blog for livingwild.org! I want to invite you to participate in this collaborative site by adding your recipes and plant discoveries. It is essential that we work together to revive the living libraries of information on how to live sustainably with this land. This will provide independence, health and food […]
