7-25-15

Okay today was good, wait i take that back today is awesome, we got all packed up today and ate at the casino now doing the last of our blogs, it was really cool to be on this trip, looking forward to coming on it again next year. There was good times and bad times but that's okay, can't wait to go home and tell my family what I did and what I now know . A SHOUT OUT TO DAVE MATHESON THANK YOU FOR PAYING FOR PAYING FOR OUR FOOD THIS MORNING. 😊 😁😆

7-24-15

Today was a pretty cool, we got to go learn about beaver dams and about how they build there dams, what they eat, and survive where they are. They leave there family when there 2 and make there own dam. We tried to build a dam today and it did look easy at first until we had to do it and it was hard and not so easy, I did have fun and laughed , Now i see how hard it is to be a beaver, they are awesome to me now, they are such hard little workers, but anyways i didn't know there was thing they do to save beavers. Its cool that people actually try to save them. Today is our last day and cant wait to get home.

7-22-15

Yesterday we made it to coeur d'alene and it was fun because we got to go to a culture dinner and it was great, it was there first culture dinner bringing back the traditional foods, the food was good and watched the girl a couple dances, and me and a couple of our friends also danced, the girls that danced were also from white swan. The language and some of the culture is fading and they want to do anything they can to bring it back, its kinda the same way it is at home, they only got 2 fluent speakers on the land and they are both in there 90's, our language is also slowly going away but I'm trying my best to learn it. We also seen a power point on the watershed and the danger of the water and how its effecting the family's and the land also the animals, its a real big problem here. We did set up camp late.

7-23-15

We had to get up early to take a shower and seen another power point and visited the land that they did a project on. The water had a lot in it and people put allot of work into the land so it was pretty nice to go out there. We also did our little part on helping making a canoe and that was fun and got to work with different tools, i forgot the name of them but it was fun. We also went to a spot where they keep the artifacts from way back then to now. I did have fun and did learn about the land. We only got a couple more days to go but i heard that we have a lot to do tomorrow.

BUT A SHOUT OUT TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED US LEARN MORE THINGS ABOUT THIS LAND AND HELPING US, THANK YOU SO MUCH. 😃

Midnight mind

7-21-15

Today was pretty cool, we learned about how the land is trying to save the animals on the land and keep them under control on how many there are, we also learned about the tribe and how the water is being effected. We also did a project and had to catch fish to see what predators are in the water and see how the fish are doing, that was fun, I have done it before but it was nice to do it again. I also had to clan a fish because I guess no one at the camp know how to do it, everyone was watching me and I got nerves and messed up a couple times but no one notice and it was my first time doing it without my grandma or grandpa by my side making sure I do it right and my first time having a lot of people watching me clean a fish, only use to having a couple people from my family watching me but I did good, not perfect but good. After I cleaned it then one of my friends but onions and lemons on it and the dinner was really good! we also got took to the pit house, I’m not going to say what happened or what was said so I’ll just leave it at that but was very thankful. The trip is almost over and I can’t wait to get home. 

7-22-15

Today is a blogging and moving day, everyone rushed today and ate fast and fix things before we leave here. I enjoyed being here. 😇

7-20-15

Yesterday was fun and the cannoning worked out well, it was fun but a little tiring. We also had brownies last night! Today was okay I would thing, there was a couple times where I got lost but they were talking about their tribe, how some of their fishing tradition's got lost but they are slowly coming back. That made me think of our school because there is only one teacher trying to keep our traditions in our school, she teaches us the language, like how to say the colors, numbers, animals and just to speak in our language also the foods, and a few stories on how we got them. But besides that we went to the midnight mind and learned about how they were going to take all that water out of there and cover it with gravel and that could take up to 10 years to fill it all up. Yesterday we also got to native artist named gorge hill and we did some drawings, I got to see some of his work last year and he has some good art work. We played a couple games to kind of wake us up after the power point, the games where like the games we played at our school during a pep assembly. I did get to try to make some new friends and it was an okay attempt. Today was good though 😖

7-18-15

We got to another camp site here at wellpinit, we had a catch up day so we had to get our blogs done, the laundry done, and we got to go swimming at Turtle Lake that was very fun, take a shower. We didn’t do much but it was fun to go swimming. We got back to camp threw a football around with my cousins and had dinner.

7-19-15

We got to have a good sleep, got to sleep in. but heard about the plans today and it sounds fun, get to do an art project today and go cannoning, I have never gone cannoning before so that should be fun to learn and do. We are still trying to get our blogs done but hope to day goes well. 😎