Weaving Community | Tending the Wild | Season 1, Episode 3 | KCET

Basketry has been described as the pinnacle of Californian indigenous culture. But the craftsmanship necessary to make these works of art requires much more than weaving techniques. It requires a deep and sustained relationship with the environment. For centuries Native peoples tended the land and used a variety of methods to shape plants to suit their basketry needs from pruning, weeding, and coppicing to the the cyclical use of controlled burning. Today, many of these techniques have been lost or suppressed and the ability to access traditional gathering locations has been impeded by urban development and the restrictions of private property. In this video, we explore how traditional gathering is practiced today and how Native peoples are rediscovering their basketry traditions in Southern California.
Want to learn more? Watch more Tending the Wild at bit.ly/3Okdu5N
~~~~~~
Subscribe to our KZbin Channel: bit.ly/kcet-YTsubscribe
Follow us:
Facebook: / kcet28
Twitter: / kcet
Instagram: / kcet
Sign-up for our Newsletter: bit.ly/kcet-newsletter-signup
#TendingtheWild #California #environment #nature #indigenous #basketry #craftmanship #native #traditional

[@barefootfarmer4214]

Thank you, this made me cry. The world NEEDS this. Crying for the loss of this way of life for so many.

[@Frei_Raum]

I really can relate to your words. Deep inside me I find a painful longing for a life in closeness to nature. We as western people have lost so much in our lifestyle.

[@jasondavis48108]

This was so beautiful! The part about Red Willow being the tree of tolerance made me cry. Many, including myself, could really use to learn from Red Willow.

[@ravenyoul224]

Such a beautiful & inspiring video! We all need to tend the earth much better than we are doing today. I despair how people only see value in wild land by the timber on it & minerals beneath it. Our earth is worth much much more intact, living & breathing, supporting a myriad of life forms including our own. Spread the word of wild wisdom! Thank you all the way from Tasmania Australia for sharing this wonderful video I so much enjoyed & related to it!

[@fernandahorta1953]

Thank you!!!!! Strong and delicate! much love!

[@sanjayjogdand9102]

Wow! The philosophy is totally Indian,we also don't disturb plants after evening! They are sleeping! Thanks. We also pray them before cutting them and ask their mercy for our sin and promise them to propogate their progeny !

[@nextgenerationbeading1190]

Very few videos catch my soul an make me feel lots of emotion this is one of them

[@olivelancaster6649]

Thank you so much. This made me feel so many emotions....

[@sumar207]

I like the way you look at life and the planet.

[@nancybaldwin1811]

It's true what you say about dams, fences, boarders, roadways preventing us from living of the land. I always wondered how many would be living in debt if they knew how to live by the work of their hands. How to build sustainably, to weave, to gather, and to grow. When I was young I loved picking wild raspberries and blackberries that grew along the stream behind my grandmothers house. It wasn't very big lot but there were wild birch and popular trees. When my grandmother became sick, my father sold to man who wanted to build a house for his wife. He tore down the small bungalow and built a house twice the size. Then cleared the land all the way to the steam and put in a lawn, with a fire pit from Walmart. I just thought, what a waste. And if continuing to build in these ways, I wonder what will be left. Thanks for your video. :)

[@Sunshine-zg7pw]

I’m glad you’re here. ❤️

[@Staylo1453]

Thank you

[@audreymeyer5616]

Thank you for doing what you do.

[@pearllujan8569]

unbelievably inspiring video. Thank you SOOO much for making this and inspiring us to do this work

[@anniefranklin9853]

You are so inspiring 🌱🌳🍃🌿🌾Thank you

[@bing7009]

Thank You ❤️

[@MistressOP]

More with this woman plzzzzzzzzzz Make more content. Vice, Vox, I dunno anyone plz make more content with her

[@caticapponi3141]

Blessings thank you

[@earthsister1]

Great share

[@buddyr8232]

We also believe in the same thing regarding the night time rest for the plant’s in our culture.

[@fourflowers1360]

Amazing

[@littleSallyJo]

YES!

[@saffronhammer7714]

Thank you

[@Dragonfly0314]

I want to learn these things.

[@user-yk9sk7pg6v]

What a beautiful woman! Your voice reminds of Robin Wall Kimmerer's (something about the way you say 'land') :)

[@meyo4158]

How do you spell the name of your traditional house? Op. Ap. Ohp?

[@paulafernandes5988]

Hi how are you doing I want to ask something I do not know much about the history of the Indigenous people I know it is so sad what had happened to them I would like to know how had done this I know Canada had a part in it to and they should make it right they have know right to the land I wonder if they would like if you came in and took there land from them if they would like it but how was the European that did this to your people?? I do not know this??

[@bettyadkisson1681]

I have Indian in me. But I don't know what family yet. I've always felt I with the land. Gathering and planting. Just like my mother. I would love to learn about basket making.

[@hinepounamu1]

Her stories of her link to the environment is enough to solidify her claim. Family is a inherited function and is not negotiable in indigenous cultures not an earned one that is a colonial thought. Racist is a concept defined by a superior group who forces their values on a group they deem inferior. Their spirituality is a parallel world that goes hand in hand with the environment in terms of respect and protection.

[@goretisantos33]

Amei tudo, mas poderia ter opçao de legenda em portugues né. nao entendi o que falam nadinha.

[@temeralane7867]

🌾☎🌾

[@GrizzlyGroundswell]

Trespassing is theft. Permissions are new friendships and opportunities to share the abundance. Trespassing is a theft that can't be repaid.

[@GrizzlyGroundswell]

2:00 is when I tuned out and away to another vid that did not promote a crime.

[@mysteryfoxes]

@@GrizzlyGroundswell Then you missed the part where she told the story how she receives permission from the owner of the land to come and tend to the nature there.

[@janispayne5570]

Really? Think about it, native Americans lived there first before the land was stolen from them from people like you maybe.

[@GrizzlyGroundswell]

@@janispayne5570 Yes, a native American never stole horses, women, children or land from each other. They never fought bravely in war because there was none, just pixy dust, unicorns and Democrat plantations of dependence for one and all.

[@MercurialSilence]

@@GrizzlyGroundswell Tribal warfare is NOT the same as genocide and displacement from our ancestral homelands. There is no justification for what Europeans did.

[@oldmanfromscenetwentyfour8164]

"It requires a deep and sustained relationship with the environment." No it doesn't.

[@huntergiron2388]

Yes it does