There are a lot of gender differences in our people. There are things that women do and there are things that men do. This is something that is very important to the identity of our people because it is important for men to help women and it’s important for women to help men and their survival. That is why certain things were done by certain people. One of the things that I have noticed is that there are foods that the women take care of and there are foods that the men take care of. Often times the foods that are things like roots and berries, that’s things that the women are very good at and taking care of. These are things that go anywhere from capkíicey. This is capkíicey. that my wife has prepared. It is dried. It’s dug, boiled, and dried and strung together like this. This is just one of the ways that it is stored. You’ll see a difference between the way that it looks. It looks more bulbous than cous. Cous is a bit more irregular while capkíicey tends to be more bulbous in nature. Now cous is taken and it is pounded up into a real fine meal like that or else it is ground often times. What the people will do then is they’ll take it and they’ll squish it with their hands and they’ll make what is called qeqíit. Qeqíit is a real nice treat. Some people call them Indian cookies or treats that people would take while traveling. Sometimes they would mix a little bit of sugar or else maybe some honey in there with it and they would sweeten it up. My mom used to dig a lot of these roots and she would come home and we would grind them up in a hand grinder. Then we would have a large table like this full of ground up cous and we would sit there all day and make qeqíit. Then we would take it out and the children were sitting up on the roof and they would lay a white sheet out on the roof. Then we’d line up all of these things. We’d spread out all of the qeqíit so that it would dry throughout the day. Once it is dried it will keep indefinitely. Things like this because they are so delicious didn’t last very long. They were immediately eaten up.