Julia Parker | KQED Spark

Join KQED's Spark as we travel to Yosemite to visit with artist Julia Parker, who is helping to revive a traditional art form of Native American basket weaving.
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[@amidastouch]

the baskets at the end are spectacular

[@dylanparker2132]

That’s my great grandma

[@grayrachelle]

What an amazing woman she is!

[@dylanparker2132]

Rachelle Gray thanks she is

[@jsmith3980]

Great video.All the baskets are so beautiful.

[@selenasalas7296]

I am descendent of one of the early Yosemite Native people. The most beautifulist and largest baskets were made by the Paiute women of Yosemite and Mono Lake. Women like Nellie and Tina Charlie, sisters. Carrie Bethel, The Toms, Taboose Howard and other Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute women made the best baskets in Yosemite.

[@ChiefThundermoon]

Julia taught me how to make bow string from tule plant.(Too Lee)

[@amidastouch]

magnificent

[@Ahwahneechee]

Nice Video, but I have a question, Did you have to obtain a film permit to film in Yosemite national park?

[@aeromodeller1]

www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/filming.htm

[@richardbowers3647]

Suspect, maybe, yes as they may want to edit it?

[@selenasalas7296]

A miwok man? I thought she married Ralph Parker, a Yosemite-Mono Lake Paiute? Paiutes were the original people of Yosemite. Miwoks came much later into the area.

[@richardbowers3647]

For the Indians protection, I'm guessing, that the government moved them off their land to a safer place. So there probably was a mix-up to the people living there. Just saying.

[@richardportman8912]

I met her. She was a doctor.

[@heavensbutterflies2108]

My Native American of the Day. I hope she will ask many to do drought and wildfire aid concerts ahead of any big problems in the country. I moved this video to Twitter . 5/23/2015 I hope many ask for concerts and drought aid events ahead of huge problems. Even ask president and Mrs Obama and the Bidens.

[@richardbowers3647]

For me, the most interesting basket weaving was their "water bottle" that the history books recorded. Just saying. Food gathering had been very important for survival & carrying water was equally as important too.

[@lucasramirez4436]

damn