First Nations Visitor and Forest Art

On May 30, Mr. King (or Sierra’s dad), came in to tell us about First Nations People. He was half First Nations, and showed us very old artifacts such as a piece of rock used to grind corn and grain into cornmeal and flour. His paternal grandmother is alive today and is First Nations. She had lived in a hogan (that’s a traditional Navajo house). When he and his brother visited her to install a fridge and build a washroom (so she didn’t have to walk 100 yards to the outhouse), some strange things happened. A few days after they went to install the fridge, they saw that she had unplugged it. They asked why she had done it. She said that it was because the light was always on. They explained to her that there was a button and when the fridge door closes and hits the button, the light turns off. While they were there, they checked the washroom and found it being used as a storage room. She hadn’t lived with electricity or running water ever before, so she didn’t use them the way we do. Now she lives in a nursing home, as she is 98 years old.