My Lakota Tribe Project

Lakota Yuwipi Ceremony
The Yuwipi Ceremony is a curing ritual. The Yuwipi Ceremony is only performed by Lakotas. The groups of Lakotas that perform this ceremony are called Siox groups. They believe that the man who does this ritual is trained by spirits. The man that does this ritual is called the Yuwipi man. The room that they perform this ceremony is completely emptied and cannot have anything in it. After they emptie the room they have to blacken the room because the spirits can only come in black. They believe that this ceremony can heal any illness. The Yuwipi man can come to other people’s houses if they ask him too.

Food of First Thanksgiving
When you hear about the indians on the first thanksgiving they are talking about the Lakota tribe. The first thanksgiving was a big feast that the indians made to thank the pilgrims for all that they did for them. Thats why it’s called thanksgiving. As you know the main food of thanksgiving was and still is turkey. They also had fish on the first thanksgiving, even though most people now dont have fish on thanksgiving, well, they did heve it, so I think that we should have fish on thanksgiving. They had lots of corn on the first thanksgiving because thats what they mainly knew how to grow. Of course everybody knows that they had fruits and vegetebles. What they had for dessert was pumpkin Pie which I think most people have still today.

Hunting
Hunting was a big part of their life because if they didn’t hunt they whouldn’t have anything to eat. What they hunted was bison and tatanka but they mainly hunted bison or you could call it buffalo. They hinted in montana. They also hunted alot in Wyoming. They also hunted in Colarado. They also hinted in Nebraska. They also hunted in North Dakota. They also hunted in South Dakota alot. The Lakota liked the buffalo so much that they made a ceremony about the buffalo. Most of the time they used a horse to hunt the buffalo on. The white people were the ones who brought the horses to them. Hunting was really hard before the white people brought the horses to them.

Diet
The lakota’s main food was buffalo because that was what was most available. The Lakota also ate tatanka but they didn’t eat it as much. They whould eat meat that had been preserved but they really preffered fresh meat. They whould dry buffalo in the sun to make jerky. When they did preserve meat they whould only preserve it for for or five days before they whould eat it.

Shelter
Most of the Lakota lived in tipis. The tipis were easily transported. They whould usually transport them for following the buffalo for hunting. The tipis were made out of sticks. They were also made out of buffalo hide. At the top of the tipis were a flap. This flap was made for smoke to be able to escape from the tipis if they wanted to have a fire. They could close the whole for when it rained or snowed. I think that Indians still use tipis today but not as much because they don’t do as much hunting these days.

My Summer Experience

Cameron Schille
American Studies
september 10, 07

There I stood on a commercial gillneting boat in Bristol Bristol Bay Alaska and we started pulling in the net and then we realized that there was a whole bunch of salmon in it. As we pulled it in we were picking the fish out as fast as we could, it was just fish after fish.

It was the most fish I had ever seen in one set in my life, there is a thing called fish rope that I have only seen in pictures which is fish in every mesh of the net, it makes all of the net sink, and you have to pick them all. This wasn’t quite fish rope but it was close. It took us about three hours to pick the net but we did it. Normally it only takes about a half hour to an hour, but not with the quantity of fish we had in this set. A normal set usually catches anywhere from 0 fish to about 400 or 500 salmon but this set caught about 800 salmon. Which is about 6,000 pounds.

Now looking back at it I realize that i’m pretty lucky because at the end of the season we ended up with 160,000 pounds which is the best we have ever done and i got paid pretty well. That was my third year going up to Alaska to fish and I hope to do it every summer again until im 18 years old.

Skateboarding

When I was about ten I went to my mom's house for a weekend. On saturday we went to the park, I brought my skateboard, I had just got the board and i hadn't tightened up the trucks or anything. I tried skating down this hill and i realized that the board was wiggling alot and once i got to the bottom of the hill the board came out from under me and i fell on the hard asphault, sliding on my knee and rolled into the sharp, spikey sticker bushes. I immediately crawled out of the bushes and looked at my knee, a heuge gash covered my whole knee it was very deep, then i had to retrieve my skateboard out of the bushes, i limped to my mom and told her what happened. She took me home, we wrapped it in paper towels until the bleeding stopped. A day later there was a scab that covered my whole knee.

Stop Frame Animation Reflection

Cameron Schille
American Studies
11/6/07

Stop Frame Animation

I have just Completed my stop frame animation project. I did my project on Christopher Columbus. My partner was Patrick Riebel.

The part of this project that was the most fun was probably making a picture of Christopher Columbus talk about himself. Me and Patrick got a picture of Christopher Columbus from google and used the computer to make his jaw drop up and down. After that we recorded our voices to talk about him. We made Christopher Columbus say that the most accurate picture of him was painted by Alejo Fernandez, and that in some paintings he had white curly hair and in some paintings he had brown curly hair, and that he wore old style clothing.

The most difficult part of this project was making Christopher Columbus’s ship sail across his map. Patrick and I had to make a map, put it on the computer, and make his ship sail across the map. It isn’t as easy as it sounds. Once the map is on the computer you have to go on the internet, find a picture of his ship, and copy and paste it onto the map. The hardest thing about it was moving it over and over again, every time you move it you have to save it too, so that took forever.

The most important thing i learned was all of the Places Christopher Columbus discovered. Another important thing I learned was not to leave my project on the desktop. My whole project was deleted. It was ok though because I still got the grades, but it sucked because I don’t get to put it on you tube.

This project was pretty fun because I liked how we were really for example being able to go up to the annex, the library, and the classroom. It was my favorite project that I have ever done.

Alaska

Every summer i go to Alaska to work on a commercial gillnetting boat, my dad owns the boat. The day after school gets out I get on a plane in Seatac and that plane takes me to Anchorage. I get on another plane there that takes me to King Salmon, from there my dad picks me up and drives me to the camp we stay at. The company we sell the fish we catch to is called Peterpan Seafood's Inc. Usually I get there right after free week which is a week of fishing right at the beginning of the season where you kind of just test it out. There are lots of different areas to fish at in Bristol Bay, there is the Naknek Quejak district, Nushagak, and a few others, but we usually fish in the Nushagak district for most of the season and towards the end of the season we transfer to the Naknek Quejak district. At the very end of the season we put the boat away, the company has a big crane that lifts our boat out of the water and then we clean it up and winterize it and put it in the warehouse and go home, and my favorite part (get paid).

Rear Window Essay

Cameron Schille
American Studies
10/3/07

Rear Window Essay

Alfred Hitchcock was a great film writer. He made lots of great films in his days and one of his best films was Rear window. Hitchcock liked to set challenges for himself in his films and the challenge in this film was too tell a good story without the camera ever leaving Jeff’s apartment.
One way Alfred Hitchcock made this film interesting was he always had people coming in and out of Jeff’s apartment. They would have real life conversations that were very interesting and grabbed the audiences attention. When the people came into his apartment he would tell them about his day and everything he saw. There was also a relationship with one of the characters and Jeff had love scenes with her which caught peoples attention.
Another way this film was interesting was because Jeff and his friends were always looking out the window and spying on people. there were always really interesting things going on outside the apartment in other peoples windows, and the characters were always talking to each other about these things to tell the audience what was going on and the actors opinion on it.
Another thing that made this film interesting was that there was a problem that the people in Jeff’s apartment were trying to figure out and solve. The problem was that there were lots of signs that one of Jeff’s neighbors might have murdered their wife. There were things like long distant phone calls and trips out late at night. One of the biggest signs were he had a box and rope that made it look like he was putting his dead wife in there.

These are all good reasons why this film was a good one. I would recommend this film to anyone who hasn’t seen a good movie in a while or just likes good movies because it is very interesting.

Fishing

On sunday night I went fishing with my dad. We were fishing in Tulalup for silvers. When we got there my dad threw the buoy and the end of the lead line as far as he could up onto the beach and then he set the net and anchored the boat, which you are not suppose to do with a drift gillnet because fish and game doesn't allow it, but he does it anyway. The boat we have is 32 feet long and my dad brings a rowboat with him because with the rowboat he can row down the net and get the fish out before the seals get to them without having to put the whole net back on the drum. While my dad rowed down the net the first time i scooped ice from a cooler or (toat) into another toat that had water in it to make slush ice. At the end of the night in the morning we ended up with 23 salmon. It was pretty fun.

new blog

hey my name is cameron and this is my first blog i am doing it for my american studies class