• Post Reply Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic
permaculture forums growies critters building homesteading energy monies kitchen purity ungarbage community wilderness fiber arts art permaculture artisans regional education skip experiences global resources cider press projects digital market permies.com pie forums private forums all forums
this forum made possible by our volunteer staff, including ...
master stewards:
  • Carla Burke
  • Nancy Reading
  • John F Dean
  • r ranson
  • Jay Angler
  • paul wheaton
stewards:
  • Pearl Sutton
  • Leigh Tate
  • Devaka Cooray
master gardeners:
  • Christopher Weeks
  • Timothy Norton
gardeners:
  • thomas rubino
  • Matt McSpadden
  • Jeremy VanGelder

Inspiring slideshow of some Nipmuc American Indian natural building

 
pollinator
Posts: 2203
Location: Massachusetts, 5a, flat 4 acres; 40" year-round fairly even
303
4
kids purity trees urban writing
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=1425746448065638

Eastern woodlands (Massachusetts), they’ve kept their culture alive through all kinds of challenges and erasure. They share a cultural celebration with the public each year, telling stories and doing a social dance. It is very humbling and inspiring.
 
steward & author
Posts: 38830
Location: Left Coast Canada
13844
8
books chicken cooking fiber arts sheep writing
  • Likes 1
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
facebook has a login wall.  Can't see it.

Can you tell us more about it?  Or share a link without a login wall?
 
Joshua Myrvaagnes
pollinator
Posts: 2203
Location: Massachusetts, 5a, flat 4 acres; 40" year-round fairly even
303
4
kids purity trees urban writing
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator

r ranson wrote:facebook has a login wall.  Can't see it.

Can you tell us more about it?  Or share a link without a login wall?



Thanks raven. I don’t know how to do a link without login wall, but they separated huge chunks of bark from lengths of trunk and used that for the wall, and the structure is something like a lattice of saplings in a circle.

They also hollowed out a log canoe. They said it was burned out in the presentation but it looks like they planed it afterward. It’s so beautiful!!
 
steward and tree herder
Posts: 8653
Location: Isle of Skye, Scotland. Nearly 70 inches rain a year
4084
4
transportation dog forest garden foraging trees books food preservation woodworking wood heat rocket stoves ungarbage
  • Likes 3
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
I don't think it is the same video as Blake found, but I found a video on you tube with some of the structures has mentions (and some other artifacts). The traditional house frame is a lovely dome (they hadn't clad this one with bark sheets).
https://youtu.be/gLl2PKtK_OQ
This seems to be a static display however rather than a gathering, but maybe they leave the projects behind after the gathering?

I also found Ohketeau which is a cultural centre for the Nipmuc people. I don't know whether the event you watched was one of theirs ( I couldn't find the video you describe) but they do have workshops to promote skills such as brain tanning and traditional medicine. I found this one about making a canoe through burning:


source
 
Joshua Myrvaagnes
pollinator
Posts: 2203
Location: Massachusetts, 5a, flat 4 acres; 40" year-round fairly even
303
4
kids purity trees urban writing
  • Likes 2
  • Mark post as helpful
  • send pies
    Number of slices to send:
    Optional 'thank-you' note:
  • Quote
  • Report post to moderator
Thanks Nancy, yes that was one of the presenters.
 
The overall mission is to change the world. When you've done that, then you can read this tiny ad:
Announcing The World's Largest Collection of 16,000 Woodworking Plans
https://woodworking-plans
reply
    Bookmark Topic Watch Topic
  • New Topic