2017 People of Big River 02

Day 14, People of the Big River 2017 ; COEUR D' ALENE IDAHO: LARSEN CAMPSITE ---LAKE COEUR D'ALENE DAY BEFORE LAST DAY. THERE WAS QUITE THE RUTKUS AMONGST THE CAMP CREW---A CRAZY DEER STORY,,,APPARENTLY A DEER JUMPED AROUND AND TRAMPLED A COUPLE OF THE LADIES TENTS!! I SLEPT THROUGH IT FOR SOME CRAZY REASON,,, BUT THAT WAS THURSDAY IN THE EARLY MORNING,,,,I REALLY CAN NOT SLEEP IN THE EARLY MORNING HOURS WITH THE SUN RISING AND THE MORNING AIR OF THE COEUR D' ALENE LAKE. I GET THAT WAY IN THE MOUNTAINS,, REGARDLESS OF WHAT NUMBER OF HOURS OF SLEEP I GET,, IF IT IS THE  EARLY MORNING DAWN,, I GET RESTLESS AND HAVE TO SKY UP.   ANYWAYS.....   I SIT HERE AT THE WELLNESS CENTER WISHING I COULD JUST RUN AND JUMP AND HIKE AND SWIM AND MOVE AND SWEAT...... I RAN THIS MORNING FROM COEUR D' ALENE LAKE WHERE WE ARE CAMPED AND AS I TOOK A DRINK OF MY STRAWBERRY LEMONADE I GOT FROM THE JULYAMSH POWWOW THIS MORNING I KNEW I WANTED TO RUN,,,,SO I TOOK MY TENT DOWN EARLY, AND GO

7/21/2017 THE PEOPLE OF THE BIG RIVER CLASS HAD AN INTERESTING NIGHT LAST NIGHT!!!! ALTHOUGH THIS MAY BE MY FIRST AND ONLY BIG RIVER EXPERIENCE I SURE WILL NEVER FORGET TO TAKE COMPLETE, CONCISE, LEGIBLE, INTERESTING AND COMPLETE NOTES... NOTE TO SELF... I SURE WILL NEVER FORGET MANY A PERSONAL AND INSIDE STORIES BETWEEN OUR GROUP.. THE CAMPING EXPERIENCE WILL ALWAYS BE REMEMBERED... LAUGH... I GAINED A WHOLE MESS OF INFORMATION AND INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT WOODPECKERS.... I SHALL CONTINUE THIS WITH MY NOTES ,,,, I NEVER FAIL TO ASK GOOD QUESTIONS WHEN THERE IS AN EXPERT THAT IS SPEAKING ON A FOCUS SUBJECT,,, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS MASTERS WORK... WE ARE NOW AT THE WELLNESS CENTER WHICH MAKES ME FEEL SO REFRESHED ,, ,SO THANKFUL FOR THE COEUR D' ALENE WELL NESS CENTER.....BOOM ...REFERSHED..... LOVE IT

COEU D'ALENE INDIAN RESERVATION JULY 20TH 2017 HOWDY FROM THE WELLNESS CENTER TODAYS ACTIVITIES WERE VERY COOL WITH A PRAYER TO SEND OFF THE NEW CANOERS MYSELF, CRISTY AND MONET PARTICIPATED WITH THE NEW PADDLERS EARLY THIS MORNING WITH A SONG GIVEN FROM THE COASTAL PEOPLE (LUMMI I BELIEVE) A BRAND NEW SONG GIVEN BY THE COMBINED LUMMI, COEUR D' ALENE PEOPLE. WAS SANG IN A GOOD WAY.. WE WAR HOOPED AND SET THEM AFLOAT IN A GOOD WAY YII YII.... PEACE BE THE JOURNEY.

11 POBR 2017 …. ( TRAVEL AND ARRIVAL AT COEUR D' ALENE INDIAN RESERVATION) NOT A WHOLE LOT OF TRAFFIC,,, SEEN A FEW VANS GO BY … THE TRAVELING FROM WELLPINIT WAS OK, NOT FAR WHATSOEVER IN COMPARISON TO PREVIOUS DRIVES. THIS IS GOING TO BE OUR LAST STOP ON OUR INFAMOUS TRIP ACROSS PACIFIC NORTHWEST INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES; MY LORD IT MAKES ME HAPPY AND SAD TO COME TO OUR LAST DESTINATION, BUT I FEEL PROUD TO HAVE LANDED SAFELY ONCE AGAIN,,,,THE PEOPLE INVITED THE CREW OF THE POBR CLASS OF 2017 TO A TRADITIONAL FEAST IN HONOR OF THEIR DEPARTURE FROM ONE OF THREE TRADITIONAL LANDINGS OF THE COEUR D' ALENE BANDS OF LONG AGO WHICH WILL COMMENCE AT 930-10AM TOMORROW ( THURSDAY) FROM OUR CAMPSITE.. THE BROTHER CAJ , THAT'S HOW I WOULD SPELL IT....LOL... A GOOD MAN, VERY WELCOMING AND DELIGHTFUL TO TALK TO FOR SURE; HAD A FEW GOOD WORDS FOR MYSELF AND MY PARTNER CRISTY FIANDER,,, IT SEEMS CRISTY AND I CLICK VERY WELL TO THE LOCALS FROM EVERY REZ..... WE GOT T

Day 10 People of the Big River The Spokane Tribal Hatchery is very unique in it was a thought and an action in it origins; the people: Tim Peone and family, along with a few selected elders decided to create a Salmon Recovery and aquatic biota restoration hatchery on their homelands where they fished and ran and played as children. Vision became reality.         Actions towards Salmon Recovery is very heartfelt among the Spokane. In my experience here at the Spokane Reservation in the past and in the present, I have more or less acknowledged and accepted the fact that the salmon have no longer ran the Spokane River. It was only after I listened to my new friend Warren Seyler that I have a brand new prayer lined up for all the people of the Spokane Reservation and Warrens Mission as an advocate for the passing of sacred History of the Spokane Elders. I am on a similar path and it gives me comfort to know that there are people like Warren that I can reference

Day 9 Monday July 17 th 2017 ( Tshimikain Creek : Electro Fishing for Rainbow trout. The Tshimikain was a small with various non-native and native species. The counts of Rainbow were high according to Program Manager Casey Flannigan.d Casey was a part of my crew and we had fun netting Rainbows, Brown Trout, Sculpin, suckers and pike minnow. Crew leader Nick (BUB) had us in waders as we trekked through between ¼ and ¾ of a meandering, up to 4 ½ feet deep running water. The rainbows were analyzed for weight, length, genetics, and were PIT Tagged above 60 Millimeters. Casey was very insightful I got a chance to talk with her a bunch. Casey was working on her masters degree through Eastern Washington University and her research was on Redband Trout physiology; a nightmare of a thesis that required hours upon hours upon hours of monotonous lab work. Sheesh, basically it was an experiment that analyzed differences in size and change in size under certain