Projects
Many of us in this community have lots of interests and always working on some project or the other. Here is a list of ongoing, upcoming, and potential projects. In addition to these projects, there are always trips and expeditions planned, check the calendar.
Please remember, this page is for us to change and update as new interests appear.
Ongoing Projects
- Natural Building with Celilo Village: working with the village closely and listening
- Bow-Making: collecting wooden staves, making longbows and recurves
- Wicker Baskets: collecting wild willows, weaving baskets
- Hide tanning: skinning, tanning, making clothing and bags and hats
- Coiled Baskets: weaving and sewing simple raffia and other plant fiber baskets
- Chinook Jargon Language: learning the trade language of the region from Grand Ronde
- Food Gathering: seasonal food collection, spring greens, summer berries, fall nuts and fish
- Food Fermentation and Preservation: fermentation, canning, drying
- Plants: identification, harvesting for bark, cordage
- Community-Building: gatherings, council technology
- Trade: trade blanket, barter
Upcoming Projects (Check the Calendar!)
- Teaching NAYA summer camp: a two day outing with native youth
- Kayak-Building: harvesting wood and willows, building skin-on-frame kayaks
- Hunting/trapping: deer and geese, nutria, squirrels
- Storytelling: creating a new mythology for our community
- Language Learning: chinook jargon, non-violent communication
- Blacksmithing: forging metal tools, knives
- Storytelling: creating a new mythology for our community
- Primitive Games: doubleball, hoop game, stick game
Potential Projects (Check the Calendar!)
- Felting: wool felting to make hat
- Medicinal Plants: tinctures, salves, herbalism
- Language Learning: chinook jargon, non-violent communication
- Shelter: finding shelter, building shelter, construction