day 14 last day of our amazing trip

Today we packed up all of our things and on the rode back home but we stopped at Dry Falls and we saw a video on how the grate Dry Falls where created by the missoula floods . right know we are about to leave back home and see all our familys .

day 13

Today we listened to Barbra Arepa talk about the culture and her history. I was vary interested, and in tuned with her stories and memory. Well  Rick showed us 17 different animal pelts,I love the wolf pelt it was so soft and cozy. After going through all of the pelts we all took a nap till 6 o`clock. After taking a nap we all had dinner, and Rick took all of us to the mountains to howl with the wolfs sadly we did not get a response from the wolfs. I had a grate day today.

day 11

today we took showers and traveling to our next stop in our adventure.

day 10

Today we met 8 people. Billy Joe Keeper,Waren Seylor,John Matt,Bill Matt,Brian Crossly,Casey Flanagan,Brint Chols,and Candes Benett.we went elector fishing i got shocked by Eric more than 5 times we went swimming and we worried everyone by going across the lake but at the end of the day we all were in a good mood and happy birth day destiny.

day 9

Today we just travled and Wenix Red Elk showed us all the traditional foods of the Umatilla tribe . The Spokane tribe paid for our meals and graciously nice and kind

day 8

Today we met Wenix Red Elk DNR education & outreach specialist .we got to go to a renovation area hot day we had 5 flat tires and one blow out Wenix Red Elk made us Indian tacos and the most delicious chilli. We got to take showers and learn how to play stick games.We were all grateful for her hospitality for letting us all stay at her house the best dinner ever. 

day 7

Today I have met Jim Harack , Peter Cleary , and Ian Willson.  We were at Lostine River also known as the treatment stream. The fish go through 8 dams; the fish have radio tags in the fishes Esophagus. On Friday they caught  115 fish they write and summit documents ,they have 50 different facilities, writing skills are very important for every job. There are 10 weirs mostly in Idaho, bonvill founded, over 1 million dollars to complete the construction 400,000 a year to keep the facility going.1.3 volt to knock out a fish, fish love cold water, and bigger fish eat other fish , little fish eat squid . Congress has a lot of influence on the tribe fisheries

day 5

Today I have went to the Deschutes forest , we dug about 7 water bars well we as in michell and me. All of our group had 10 x the fun at blue lagoon lake the water was frezzing cold but we all had fun. War pony plus Eric got to go take 4 fire rings out so there wont be no fires and also the ashes will get into the river , we had to take the rocks out so people don’t make there own fire places . when calista was joking about skipping a rock she threw it and she hit me right in the side of my breast and that certainly hurt so bad i start to cry. This was funny because right before this happened I was just talking about grown up well a part in the movie happened just the same besides the boy got hit in the stomach not the breast but all in general this day was great and we met some people and they love the forest .

day 6 saturday

     On Saturday we drove over to Wallowa ,OR. Slept most of the way and made paper airplanes.
 We went to the painted mountains so many different colors and the beautiful textures. I loved all the colors,and had so much fun at the painted mountains. After all the driving we finally got to our destination Wallowa , OR. Pow-wow time for us Native Americans yaay finally.    

day 4 thursday

Today we went to lava bluet,lava cave river,deschutes national forest, and also met 8 wonderful people.

day 3 wensday

today i went to go horse back rideing at 9 am it was fun and my first time riding on a horse. we went to the museum and learned a lot of stuff and this day is still in progress.

tusday day 2

    The 1st stop was at the shatike creek two people spoke Jason Grant amd Austin Smith. Jason Grant talked about the restoration of shatike creek took6 weeks to complete and finished in 2009 . The damages from the 1964 flood afected animal food source and their habitat.They used old trees for the restoration project.This project was fundend BPA, 12 to 20 people check on the stream 3 to 4 times a year. shatike creek has indangered fish bull trout and steel head the fish and wildlife are trying to get rid  of brook. Coho salmon have returned shatike creek.Jason Grantis an on rezervation biologest . Austin Smith monitors mill deer and he is a wild life technician. There are currentley 53 colars out , they often loose mill deer to perdedors. In 2009 was the test fase, in 2010 they put more colars out soon after they lost 45 colars half  later that year they put out 15 more colars.At stop 3 we observed the water level and the small details to make the stream better.

monday post 1st day

       Today I got to see a petroglyphs it was fun and vary interesting , we were there for a hour  walking around on a trail looking and listening. Personally  i love my heritage and i am proud to be a Native American . When i saw the petroglaphs i was amazed and mezmorized about how many storys and all the culture . I will be going back with my father Haver Jim to here the knowledge he has to give me on the petroglaphs . Just imagine back then a fresh water breeze the mist of the celilo falls the laughter of familys  the sweet and scary stories of the elders all the knowledge, culture,and all the beatiful and wondeerful wisdom. That was when the  world was right and sain. well thats all i have to say for day 1.