July 20, 2017-Day twelve
We went to the Coeur D’Alene Wellness Center to shower up
this morning. What a beautiful facility. While I waited for the showers, Diana,
Jaynelle, and I sat in the sauna. We both explained to Diana the similarities
between the sauna and a sweat. I like that Diana is interested in learning
about our culture. When I got all finished, I treated myself to a coffee. It was
good. I was read some bible verses from Alexis. I’m thankful she did that, I felt
it was God telling me something I needed to hear. Thank you, God, thank you
Alexis. Jessica said we were coming back to the wellness tonight to blog. I asked
her if we were going to get an opportunity to work out, and she said only if
our blogs are caught up. Here I am multi-tasking eating my lunch and keeping on
top of my daily blog so I can work out tonight. When you have goals, you need
to have a plan, take proactive action and execute.
We went for a ride to the Coeur D’Alene Casino where we met
and listened to Quanah Matheson and his father Dave Matheson. Quanah spoke
about how in science relative is a term that is used often, but also in our
culture it is used to say we are all relative to one another, plants, animals,
earth, water, and we need to show respect to the animals, for they sacrifice
themselves so we can live. He asked us if we knew what the bottom line is, what
is it? The bottom line 400 years ago was balance, today the bottom line is
money. With money as the bottom line today, do we have balance? No, we don’t.
But in our own little way, we should try to take care of Mother Earth. She is
called our Mother because she takes care of us, like a Mother.
Dave Matheson said Native people are stewards of the earth.
We need to take care and protect what is provided by the earth. What are
problems to the environment? Apathy, greed, and self-indulgence. How do we fix
this problem? That is an answer all people must think about and come together
to discuss and enact solutions. He said his part in taking care of the
environment is eating all natural foods such as, deer, elk, wild game, roots,
berries, and water. No added preservatives, antibiotics, steroids, cross
cultured foods, or gmo foods. He also spoke about how the earth is crying, by
the fires that are rampant, flooding, earthquakes, and ice caps melting. We
need to be the people to help change the environment for the better for our
future generations, to not be selfish, but to look past what is in front of us
and see for the future.
I am officially burnt out. In my hurry to get going, all I brought
were my hiking boots and I forgot my tennis shoes. So, I am unable to work out
today. L
We got back to camp and Pedro gathered us all together and we
began to make traps to catch mice. The materials he gave us were a five-gallon
bucket, 16-gauge wire, pvc pipe, and peanut butter. We assembled the materials
make a make shift bridge with the wire and the pvc pipe with a bit of peanut
butter in the middle. Diana and I gathered
sticks, weaved them together with pine branches to make a way for the mice to
climb onto the bucket in hopes they would fall in. Once everyone had their
buckets assembled to their liking, Pedro took us up the hill to set them up.
Because there were six groups, there were two teams a piece for the lower
elevation, middle elevation, and a top elevation. Diana and I picked the middle
elevation, since we missed out on the lower elevation. We had to level out the
ground to set the bucket down, set up our sticks for the mice to climb on, and
covered the outer part of the bucket to camouflage it from passerby’s.
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