There is a lot of hard work that goes into preparing foods but nowadays we have the advantages of different containers like jars and canning processes that help us to prepare the foods.

This is salmon that has been canned. It stores easily. You can also do elk meat in the same way. This is hóopop. This is a tree lichen that was gathered from the trees and it was baked with camas in the ground for three days. Then it is dried and you can rehydrate this and make a little bit of a mush with it.

This is some camas that my wife did. These are prepared together, the hóopop and the camas.

Then there are also smoked versions of salmon. There are a number of different ways that our people prepared these different foods.

They were always something that you were constantly preparing and your anticipation of surviving their winter or having enough food around for your children to eat. It is a lot of forethought to be able to go out and know how much fish that you are supposed to have for the winter to feed five people or ten people or an entire village. There were always people to oversee that. That was something that had to be carefully governed so that there was enough food for the people that are alive today and enough was let go so that it would go back to where it was from and reproduce to come back and feed the people next year and the next year after that and so on and so forth all the way into the future. It was that careful thought process that allowed us to live in harmony with the land as people say, coexistence.