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As you drive south from Mountain Home or north from Elko, 100 miles in
either direction through the vast stretches of high desert plains skirted
by the Owyhee Mountains, miles of seemingly endless fence lines, mark
cattle ranches and frame the highway. But fences suddenly disappear as you
enter the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, home to the Newa and Numa peoples
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In the very heart of Idaho wilderness beneath its most spectacular mountain
range, the Sawtooths, springs forth a river like no other river. The
Salmon. It carves its way through rocky canyons for hundreds of miles. It
is home to spawning steelhead and chinook salmon that journey from the sea.
Indian people have always fished these waters and they hunted the wild
sheep that live among the rocky crags. Lemhi Shoshone people. Keepers of
the Earth. -
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Often the word myth is used in conjunction with these stories. If we
interpret stories not literally, but metaphorically; if we look at their
symbolism, we can see that they point to all sorts of literary as well as
spiritual truths that are shared by all of humanity. -
Their villages were once along the shores of pristine lakes— Coeur d’Alene, Benewah, Chacolet — and wild rivers — the St. Joe, St. Maries, Spokane. They fished for salmon and cutthroat trout, hunted deer, bear and elk, dug camas and bitterroot. They picked huckleberries. Spirituality was their signature on daily living.
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Coyote, ‘iceyeeye, he was going upstream.
Coyote is always going upstream. He was going along and he noticed the
salmon were having some difficulty there. So he says. I'll build a fish
ladder so that the salmon can go up river and feed my people. And so he's
busy working along there and Magpie he flies over and says. Ahg! What are
you doing?
And Coyote looks up and he says, ‘I'm building a fish ladder for the fish
to go up to feed my people.’ -
Rebroadcast of the 1991 Keepers series by Jane Fritz
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“I arrive long before sunrise in this dry part of western Montana. The
mountains are black silhouettes around me.” -
Coyote, he was going upstream.
Coyote is always going upstream. He was going along and he noticed the
salmon were having some difficulty there. So he says. I'll build a fish
ladder so that the salmon can go up river and feed my people. -
The longer I live in this stunning Wallowa-Snake River country, the more
complicated the past becomes. The present too!
Like the country at large, we are experiencing a Native Revival. Fire,
fish, and reconciliation with the past are fueling a nation-wide
“surge”—that’s Ojibwe writer David Treuer’s term—and the same is true here. -
I first encountered the Nez Perce, or Nimi’ipuu, in 1989 when I walked
through the doors of the unique, triangular shaped building of the Nez
Perce National Historical Park, near Lapwai, Idaho. Their story was my
introduction to Idaho’s native peoples and for the next 13 years, I worked
on cultural projects with the Lapwai tribe, including producing features
and documentaries for Spokane public radio. -
Hello, my name is Jeanette Weaskus and I’m an enrolled
member of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, or Nimiipuu. Today I’ll be talking
about Nez Perce legends and how they relate to the tribal landscape.
As a folklorist, I have gotten to know the mythologies of many cultures
around the world and have learned how traditional stories function within
those cultures. Specific cultural knowledge is conveyed to the listener who
will remember it, thus learning from the stories. -
Hello, my name is Jeanette Weaskus and I am an enrolled member of the Nez
Perce Tribe, or Nimi’ipuu. I used to work for the tribal radio station,
KIYE and my show was called “Titwaatit Time” which means “Story Time.” This
podcast for The Idaho Mythweaver’s Voices of the Wild Earth focuses on the
natural world with topics about trees, wolves, and salmon, and its archive
of Indigenous oral histories. -
I always notice trees, I've traveled a lot, I have taken so many different
pictures of trees that really speak to me. There is a tree in Lisbon,
Portugal, that was absolutely huge. The branches covered a whole plaza.
When we were in Africa, on a safari, we came across this very, very old
tree. And it was dying, but it was still standing; and I noticed how many
colors were in it, so I took a picture of that and then came home and did
my own rendition of that. -
When a woman was going to make a basket from a cedar tree, she would stand
in front of that tree and pray to it. ‘You are a mighty tree. You have been
shelter to us in the winter. You give us heat in the winter. You give us
shade in the summer. You help us at all times. But now I am going to take
some of your bark. I will need this bark to make a basket to carry my
huckleberries. I ask your forgiveness. I will take only what I need, and I
thank you.
