Story of Cedar, Cedar Hat Weaving & Bark Pulling Cowichan Coast Salish

[@kamauwikeepa7308]

It is amazing how your forebears utilized plants to house and cloth themselves, yet in this modern day of advanced technology we return to our roots for recollection and peace. The cedar is in essence is a lifeline from the past, both spiritually and physically. God bless you all.

[@jeffreyorgill3866]

Thank you for keeping this beautiful tradition alive.

[@magicalphoenix]

I did something like this when I crochet blankets for my family, last Christmas. I made sure to have good happy thoughts, and more or less weave into the blankets my love for them. And my mom told me every time they put the blanket on their bed it feels like I'm there giving them a big gentle hug.

[@Latino93Heat]

I'm learning how to do this today. Beautiful video, got me excited to keep this tradition alive. Cheers from the Pacific Northwest!

[@marilynvanos3081]

Working with cedar is like working with lauhala and paperbark mulberry. Techniquesare similar. The flowers on the hats are the same we use on Kauai. Working with natural, sacred fibers and stripping away bark to get to the pulp.This video made me feel as though I was there with you.

[@rainroamingtree1215]

Thank you for the video, my love for red cedar and the forest is growing everyday.

[@althea8048]

Native cedar weaver in the states happy to network with those interested in cedar work and loved the video we are only allowed to pull so much off a tree. healthy for the tree just a thought.

[@anthonymohler2434]

Definitely interested in the craft! Where would one go to be able to learn the specific techniques for each part of the process? (Processing the bark, weaving at different stages, etc)

[@zx10r.babydoll]

Beautiful!!! This is more of what we need to get back to thank you so much!!! I would love to learn more…I found your channel trying to find a video on how to make a straw hat for my husband I never even thought to make one out of bark what a neat idea this makes me feel like a possibilities of useful creativity are truly endless!!! ♥️♥️♥️

[@oliviahart7983]

Love this narrative and historical context on hat weaving and sacred cedar

[@oliviahart531]

love ❤ this story about the TRANSFORMER... CHANGER ...about the people and the cedar ...im enjoying weaving and carving...

[@hornthieves]

awe inspiring production

[@hornthieves]

4 16 2023

[@SharonJackson13]

Lovely to see so many friends here, especially the wonderful Louise Hamilton

[@hikesolo3565]

At Summer Solstice the shadow of Lummi falls on the Cedars and camas I tend. I can't thank you enough for this video.

[@DomDaddyGrowler]

I've never heard of this before. This is so beautiful. Thank you for posting this.

[@BarefootViking]

Amazing to see this. Thank you for sharing

[@peefy1]

Meegwetch! Thank for sharing your wonderful video!

[@davidhandysides8800]

Such a beautiful tradition. Excited for my father and I to learn from a master weaver next weekend in Cowichan. :)

[@CliKnight]

WOW.!! This video is truly a gift. I am a Puyallup Native on my mother's side,and Sami on my father's. I struggle very much daily with PTSD from being deployed. My mother has told me,I need to go back to the old ways. That I need to be still and listen to the Creator and the Ancestors. I found this video by happenstance. I now I am very grateful that I did. Thank you so very much. It would be an honor to learn this skill from you. May I ask how and where I may go to learn? Thank you so much for this video. Many Blessings. Clí

[@maaingan]

The burden of the warrior is ours to bear, and our battle cannot end until we have secured a good future for our next seven generations. Your ancestors are all around you, when you feel tired your grandfathers have laid out hides by the fire, when you are bereft your grandmothers have made shoes for your journey. It is so important that you feel love and know you are so important. Our ancestors sacrificed everything so that you could carry on our traditions and honor your amazing heritage. Sweat lodge, ceremony, and the sacred mushroom have healed my mind. Sitting with the rocks and streams with my ancestors, offering chanyun, and listening to the lessons the trees teach us healed my spirit. Good wind on your back as you travel the Medicine Path, friend and relative.

[@space_ghost1994]

Beautiful!

[@Paintplayer42]

Wasn't expecting such a cool video. Inspired to make my own. Thanks!

[@janakujawa1629]

Beautiful. It seems like it would be like a meditative process.💙

[@nancybaldwin1811]

If they taught in school natural fibers, how to weave, how to make things there would be a lot less waste.

[@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3]

how so? just cause you know how to do something doesnt mean the vast majority of people would do it, or not waste. most people are lazy and wouldnt bother making something that takes this long.

[@dannysulyma6273]

awesome thank you for posting

[@ezraschneider5943]

I loved the cranes on the one woman's hat, beautiful

[@wildsurvivalskills]

Fantastic video and wisdom!

[@idae.3035]

Tom McElroy-Wild Survival You' re here? I love your channel!

[@MaximumLiving]

Wow, so amazing. I wish I got to try on every hat!! 🎉🙏

[@oliviahart7983]

Beautiful story

[@GemmaBenton]

Beautifully done!:-)

[@evodefrane63]

Awsome i could listin for hours

[@janegertrude9270]

So beautiful and inspiring. I've always spoken to nature and I thank you for teaching me what that means to my spirit and nature's.

[@foxx7082]

My house is under huge cedar tree since moving in a year ago I've felt at peace like I can be me freely

[@SidVacant69]

Mind if I take some bark to make me a hat?

[@alencoffell4282]

Nothing so peaceful as beautiful women creating art at the speed of nature, rather than the speed non-corporeal entity expectations.

[@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3]

i donno, my dad yelling at me calling me a dumb fuck while he's teaching me about an engine is quite peaceful.

[@oliviahart531]

great explanation

[@jerrycharles8542]

My late mother is a Sampson at Elwha. We are relatives of the Elliott and George families

[@Trina-g3q]

Thank you for sharing 🦋😇🤗

[@alexandrenikashannicolau9221]

merci du fond du coeur pour ce partage du Coeur....

[@Nufoundfriend8]

Thank You 🙏

[@vanessabill8121]

Oooh.. I really want to learn how to weave hats.. I crochet and just learning to knit.. Ive learned to bead at a young age.. My grandpa is from patbay.. We havent visited in a long time..

[@zx10r.babydoll]

That’s like food also if you make it with happy thoughts and love it tastes amazing and fills you with natural dopamines

[@OgiicheduEkwe]

I might be doing a webinar presentation on Finding and working with self - ie healing through our cultural ways, crafts and practices. I'm wondering if it's okay to share this video as a link at the bottom giving examples to?

[@Bo_in_Seattle]

Amazing short film. I am very interested in the art of cedar weaving in the Seattle area, any information you have would be greatly appreciated.

[@squamishfish]

+Bo Ttorff The Coast Salish area goes from Southern British Columbia to the Seattle area i would imagine the bands in the Puget sound area make them also

[@carlataylor4319]

Hello Phil. Thank you for uploading this. Do you have a transcript for the movie?

[@buginone3640]

LOVE it friend :-) thanks for sharing

[@buginone3640]

Very nice post friend :-)

[@chrisderuiter5862]

Hey, as a school project I will make an exhibition on Red Cedar after having had conversations with various people from the WSANEC community. Could I use this video please @PhilIves?

[@whitepage8018]

i want a hat like that! would fit me perfectly while i sit there on my stone in the river smoking my pipe and fishing in the sunshine !

[@ohmahgawdfilms]

Time to make it or buy it from a master weaver for 300 lol

[@oliviahart7983]

I’m happy to Make you one -

[@guylainedeschenes2399]

I live in kellowna i would love to take your class where do we go for this?

[@vanessaives7780]

Hi- any relation to the Ives family from Little Boston

[@ravenscott-arbuckle1262]

Does anyone know if this workshop is still available and where its located?

[@markiobook8639]

God bless native Americans.

[@davidvonjohnston]

God bless you too ❤

[@nimeshkadakia1682]

How can I get more information about classes like these because I'm very interested in learning. Thanks.

[@Anthony-ur6cj]

www.evergreen.edu/catalog/offering/indigenous-storytelling-resistance-23986

[@banq0o]

thank you very much for sharing, respect! 8-)

[@marcellawynja2372]

does cedar have to be wet before bring througgh leather stripper?

[@truthnotpewp]

I don't know by experience, but I would assume so. Otherwise it would be too dry/hard/brittle to make it pliable.

[@ronadams3195]

Awesome

[@tic857]

Is this true cedar or the western or eastern red cedar?

[@damri_notfound]

i had to watch this vid for school can someone give me like a rlly quick explanation of what this is? at least the cedar hat part.

[@davidvonjohnston]

Gunałcheesh! Ive always wanted to build a hat. I had a chance when i was a kid at the first Haku ste'ye (I just speak, cant write Łingit haha) Hope to build a hat in my home town here in the Yukon Thanks !

[@moist_onions]

How did they make those form molds

[@CircmcisionIsChi1dAbus3]

the gods, sent down a buffalo, who screamed once he saw the naked crane, and that crane laid the egg, who gave life to the mold.

[@tk23westerners89]

I live on the Fraser valley. Is there someone who could show me?

[@kan-zee]

11:10 Good stuff !!

[@unflair]

wonderful

[@betula-pendula]

Didn't you kill the tree by peeling the bark off?

[@johns.1940]

I have the same question

[@kayce4903]

amazing

[@OVERLORDG0D]

Thumbs up from me your heavenly brother God the son Holy 1 Lord Christ Kalki krishna Lion Lamb A38man of God in the flesh Charles Andrew Oyedele Ososami on the 766th Holy day of the Apocalypse at 7:34 England O'clock Amen. All glory to our heavenly father God Holy God and our heavenly mother God Holy Spirit

[@raycycleit8311]

Love...

[@baganscissors7224]

p ow er ful

[@hornthieves]

[@yvesklein5414]

showing us the technique is more useful than telling us about emotions. This isn't really a documentary. I came here to learn the technique.

[@patp3800]

It doesn't make sense to me that you ask the tree and it never says no even though you maim kill and butcher it

[@foozballdiva]

But peeling the bark off a tree like that exposes it to disease and insects. How can that be good?

[@winstonhackett]

it doesn't kill it

[@PhilIvesvideos]

This process has been going on for thousands of years and to my understanding no trees have died due to the limited exposure from the harvest. Generally, First Nations weavers are very care full to not expose areas to any extensive harvesting.

[@geneshirley9295]

Cedar is naturaly resistant to insects and decay, windfall cedar logs can be down for hundreds of years, and still have solid sound wood in the centers.

[@foozballdiva]

good to know

[@kushcandy8729]

Nettie Jacobs it's been done for thousands of years, go help save the rivers kinder morgans more to worry about.

[@chembrad]

Too much mumbo jumbo for me. The Creator did everything, I don't worship the creation, only the Creator. Just my opinion.

[@TheWeaversTheWovenOnes]

Might as well chop the whole tree down. There are sooooooo many trees that fall from storms or other natural causes. This is extremely wasteful.

[@lalani888ARTblue]

Loving this...💜