Nature Power. Harry Robinson

go through on his body.

      And that’s just to show to the white,

      or to the other Indians.

      So that’s how they know he’s a power man.

      Just for himself.

      So he live ’til he get old.

      Very old—can be about seventy or more.

POWER MAN, POWER WOMAN, THEY EACH HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY

       A young girl is instructed by her father to go and fetch the heart of a deer. As she approaches the designated place, she hears someone singing a song.

      [There] was a girl, way big enough to walk for three, four miles.

      Must’ve been ten years old.

      Maybe eleven or maybe twelve.

      And they were up on the mountain,

      her and her folks, you know, and some other people.

      Two, three camps on the mountain.

      Not too high—that’s in the fall.

      And they put in the camp.

      And the mans … go … hunting.

      And when they get deer, then they bring them.

      And the ladies, that was their job—to cut the meat, you know.

      Cut it and dry ’em.

      Dry ’em on the smoke.

      They make a place to dry the meat, you know.

      They fix up and tie the sticks together like that, and then one across here.

      Then they put some pole right on top there.

      Then they lie the grass so they can put the meat on top of that.

      And there’s a lot of air.

      And the smoke can come, you know.

      They make a small fire, use only certain kind of wood.

      They make a fire underneath and then that burns.

      But mostly smoke.

      And the meat can get dry that way in a couple days.

      Or, they can keep ’em there maybe two night.

      Two days and the meat will be dry.

      The women do that.

      That’s their job.

      But the mans, they go out and hunt and get a deer and bring ’em.

      In other way, they can roast ’em on a stick, you know, on the open fire.

      And cook them that way.

      And it can be keep, you know.

      Keep them for the winter.

      And bunch of them, they have the camp,

      maybe three, four camps.

      And her dad were out on [the] mountain hunting,

      and he got a deer.

      And he drag the deer from the mountainside

      and downhill towards the trail.

      And there was a creek and here is that.

      And here is the sketch for that.

      This would be the creek, see?

      And they drag the deer from—

      like from this side—towards the trail.

      And here is the trail—this little line.

      And here is the camp.

      And this is the trail—could be about two, three miles.

      And—yeah—could be three miles, this trail, from the camp to the creek.

      And they kill the deer up on hillside

      and then they drag ’em this way

      towards the trail and to the creek.