Nixya'awi traditional foods/ Greenhouse Nursery Day 5
Day~5 Thursday July 13, 2017
We were up early and off to the Nixya'awi Governance Center around 7:30 am. Wenix Red Elk our host and our first presenter is the Public Education and outreach specialist for CTUIR DNR. The one thing that really caught my attention is the tribes mission statement. The tribe uses our first foods to guide how the tribe manages it's natural resources. I also really liked the way they use Elders and members of the tribe to get the base line abundances for their natural resources. Their goals they have set forth are to revitalize resources to these baselines that were once here. The tribe has made some good progress in the past 30 years to bring fish up the local tributaries. Their white tail deer populations are high, I usually see deer in yards and around residential areas since I can remember. One thing I did find interesting was that Winex said that Elk is first in their food line after Salmon, it and before deer. For the Yakama's, I was taught that deer meat is the leader. I also thought that was interesting that she called all of the roots under kawsh. We gather kawsh, but it doesn't grow on the Yakama reservation. The similarities and differences are very interesting. Our next stop was the Umatilla native plant nursery. The greenhouse manager Gail Redberg gave us a tour. I really liked how they have taken initiative and started the greenhouse. I have always thought it was a good idea for us to have on our reservation, I now see how possible it is to gather and reproduce native plants to increase the natural habitats. They grew various plants including Choke Cherries, Golden Currants, Alder trees, Blue Bunch Wheat Grass, Ponderosa Pine, sage, and many more. They use a boom sprinkler it is an automatic sprinkler system. They are members of the Inter Tribal Nursery Council, that meets yearly with tribes around the US. Gail was a school teacher before she started working with the nursery. She said it would be good to get a degree in Horticulture, botany or plant phenology. They are the pilot nursery for the Sage Grouse revitalization project as well. I was very inspired by the greenhouse and I hope to see something similar on the Yakama reservation in the future. 
We were up early and off to the Nixya'awi Governance Center around 7:30 am. Wenix Red Elk our host and our first presenter is the Public Education and outreach specialist for CTUIR DNR. The one thing that really caught my attention is the tribes mission statement. The tribe uses our first foods to guide how the tribe manages it's natural resources. I also really liked the way they use Elders and members of the tribe to get the base line abundances for their natural resources. Their goals they have set forth are to revitalize resources to these baselines that were once here. The tribe has made some good progress in the past 30 years to bring fish up the local tributaries. Their white tail deer populations are high, I usually see deer in yards and around residential areas since I can remember. One thing I did find interesting was that Winex said that Elk is first in their food line after Salmon, it and before deer. For the Yakama's, I was taught that deer meat is the leader. I also thought that was interesting that she called all of the roots under kawsh. We gather kawsh, but it doesn't grow on the Yakama reservation. The similarities and differences are very interesting. Our next stop was the Umatilla native plant nursery. The greenhouse manager Gail Redberg gave us a tour. I really liked how they have taken initiative and started the greenhouse. I have always thought it was a good idea for us to have on our reservation, I now see how possible it is to gather and reproduce native plants to increase the natural habitats. They grew various plants including Choke Cherries, Golden Currants, Alder trees, Blue Bunch Wheat Grass, Ponderosa Pine, sage, and many more. They use a boom sprinkler it is an automatic sprinkler system. They are members of the Inter Tribal Nursery Council, that meets yearly with tribes around the US. Gail was a school teacher before she started working with the nursery. She said it would be good to get a degree in Horticulture, botany or plant phenology. They are the pilot nursery for the Sage Grouse revitalization project as well. I was very inspired by the greenhouse and I hope to see something similar on the Yakama reservation in the future.
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