When I learned cedar I took several classes. One was with Dolores Churchill. She is a famous Haida basket maker from up there. She showed me different techniques and also using cedar, it is the tree of life and when you collect the bark you almost have to say a prayer to the tree and thank the tree for it. The tree was the tree of life because it provided the canoes, it provided their shelter, and it provided their clothing. She said you can make diapers with cedar. It was everything. I worked mostly with cedar, red cedar and yellow cedar and going out and gathering my own. I have been going to different reservations. I took another class with Ana Jefferson and we went out and gathered cedar up in Mt. Baker. That was a neat experience too, to go up in the mountains. You could just feel the trees talking to you and you go out there and start gathering bark. You’ll see trees that when you take the bark from a long time ago, it is just starting to barely grow back to where it was taken from. You think about how many women were out there along time ago gathering bark and doing baskets.