I bet Maggie never would have guessed how many people have viewed her making acorn bread. I'm sure she'd be happy to know how many people she helped educate
Yes, I've often thought the same watching old videos. Craftspeople or artists, often musicians, from long ago, who would never have believed their works would be viewed around the world.
@@georgecarlin2656 that would be like us asking what your name is based on a photo. We know your name isn't Xiang because you aren't Asian (maybe you are, I have no clue, just an example) but we can't say if your name is Joseph, Aaron, etc.
@@georgecarlin2656 Nothing English. Do you know any indigenous history or do you genuinely think we all have british/european/spanish/french names magically by ourselves since contact with yall making it easier for 'youpeepl'? Use your brain. Not that you deserve to know my name, but I know you cant pronounce it. So im good. My name is Ix'ako Sera'aketsokawe Nungiaakpak. Im mixed from 2 territories/clans. American school and Canadian school demanded my name be something settler appropriate like Anthony or Gabriel. It's called Erasure and assimilation. We wont be here in another 500 years because of all you. We're forced into a melting pot and forced into mixing. Random ppl can claim our race now. Language is dying. This is why you call her Maggie Recently in America, us speaking our religions and practicing our culture was still illegal. So no, her name isnt friggen Maggie in this silent video. Her name is somethign sacred and im glad it isnt known. None of you deserve to know that. No native owes you anything. This video is out of desperation of her ways dying. Not for you "survivalists" How dare you thank her. Maybe yall just have a hard time swallowing that you're modern culture is apart of our disappearance and erasure.
@@Lone_Star_Outdoors I'm actually Asian, and my name is indeed Xiang, I don't mind it, I'm just curious how do you know it because it's unlikely to be just a random guess.
Maggie looks to be such a beautiful person. She is still teaching and passing on knowledge all these years later, just amazing. Thanks for saving these films.
I'm from central CA, and I grew up eating acorn "bread". My grandmother and her sisters knew how to gather acorn and prepare it to eat. She was Paiute and Me-wuk. I am half Me-wuk. We also ate pine nuts, way before they were popular in fine restaurants. Mi-chuk-sus!
Every video I've seen of "survivalists" using hot rocks to heat or boil water always take the rocks straight from the fire and throw it in the water, making the water cloudy with ash and such. This is the first video I've seen of this method where they do a quick rinse of the hot stone before putting it in the main water. Also, every survivalist I've seen cooking on hot rocks never wipes or even attempts to really clean the rock. This video shows this too.
I used to think survival, bushcraft and wilderness living required muscle ... Now I know from experience that I barely if ever need any brute muscle hahaha. Just a bit of common sense, knowledge and/or a good teacher go a very very long way. This video is a good example of that.
Good points to bring out. If a person were to use a limestone the excess lime coming from the rock could near a toxic dose of calcium (enough to cause constipation or stomach aches)
Odd. There’s a time team episode with a Saxon era experimental archaeologist who demonstrates cleaning the stone, and every intelligent bushcraft person I know of does the same.
Heh heh, I bet some natives realized non-linear time better than we assume. She may have seen something in a dream and thought (the "modern" whites won't get it but the ones who come after might be those I saw in that vision, and they sure seem grateful"). What a great smile she has! Oh yea, that comes from generations eating properly. Arthur Haines has a great ancestral diets talk up on YT about this...in any case, given what is going on with our sun, magnetic shield, and political arena I expect this type of practice will be seeing a massive comeback. Peace.
Loved the video. It really shows the effort that went into things we take for granted now. I can't imagine what other knowledge & skills we've lost over time that our ancestors performed on a daily basis. Thanks for sharing.
@hedneh that's doesn't account for the loss of knowledge. Machine work to replace labor would have been easily assimilated into Native American culture and cuisine. However, the institutional and governmental ploy to genocide and eliminate the entire culture is evident in this video.
Acorn bread with squaw berry, "only an Indian would appreciate". I would appreciate that too. Yea, condescending narrative but the method and results speak for themselves. Superior! Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
Those baskets are holding water. The baskets are perfection for the tasks she using them for. her bead and quill work is outstanding and knowledge of Acorns and the nations first Tupperware are phenomenal. What a gem of video! Maggie God Speed!
Almighty Loaf she might not have had a phone, but make no mistake, that sweet little lady did her fair share of skinning animals and carrying her weight. The modern-day man would have a difficult time keeping up with her! Those were the days where everyone had to work hard every day for the things that we take for granted these days
The information and details of this video were great. But the whole way through I just kept thinking that Maggie is the cutest thing I ever saw! I love her face. :)
We still do it this way today too. It was sort of sad seeing 1 lonely ndn woman harvesting acorns alone in Yosemite. It was really lovely seeing all those beautiful old baskets being used as they were intended to be used too. Thanks for posting.
A treasure chest of little details here that no modern survivor ever teaches. Mad respect for our ancestors. They had the survival thing down. The modern ones are just amateurs.
I wash my blender by putting warm water and dish soap inside the blender and switch it on for a couple of minutes, so easy 😁 don't use hot water as it can damage the blender. I hope you find this tip useful.
exactly, there's no need for washing up liquid with this method, no trips to shops, no need for any extra exercise, no water waste, no waste of energy. I've also heard of acorn coffee. The method is to put the acorns into hot ashes, cover them, then pound them up into powder, I will be trying this one day. I've tried eating the acorns before without preparation, they were very bitter in the middle, but the outer edge tasted good, I imagine they are like chestnuts when roasted.
I know this was the mentality back then about her culture being so "backwards". But it's quite useful and smart. I would of never thought of using the ground to absorb the water. I appreciate acorns as a food source.
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Exactly! For example, heating water with a hot stone produces a boil more efficiently than externally applied heat. Not to mention, this is a zero waste, community-building way of producing reliable, nutrient dense food. Brilliant.
How happy she was when she finally finished making the flour! What a lovely lady. And what a beautiful example of why working with your hands is important.
Tra-Bu-Ce's/Maggie's beautiful smile at 3:51 Everything she's using has been made with her own hands or the hands of someone living in her community. Those baskets that hold water are ASTONISHING. And it's quite possible her brush is homemade with horse hair. I wanted to try one of the biscuits with berries at the end, lol. The text was very insulting in some places, but Tra-Bu-Ce works with such joy & steady power. I'm so glad this was documented.
Typically the brushes were made with soap root. And the watertight baskets or “dippers” were made of very tightly woven fresh redbud bark (the interior lining of the bark).
This is a wonderful example of how so-called primitive people knew how to use the bounty with which they were surrounded. Amazing knowledge--de bittering the acorns, rinsing the rocks for the hot water, proper storage of the acorns, etc. We are losing knowledge all the time. I remember as a very little girl my mother showing me how to clean a chicken, and carefully explaining how you do not break the gall bladder (she just called it "the gall") as it would make all your meat bitter. If it ever comes to it, I know how to clean a chicken--and now I will be able to make acorn bread. Wonderful video--this woman is a delight! Thanks for sharing.
I wish I had learned more such skills in childhood, the ones I did learn are burned into my synapses in a way that later lessons never were. That includes lessons from parents, lessons passed along by older kids, or lessons learned by accident or trial and error.
I couldn't stop marveling at the craftsmanship of the baskets she was using. It would take me a lifetime to make one of that qualtiy by hand, but I bet she could have one made in a day or two. Also, if I get a fairy god mother someday, I want it to be her. She seems like such a neat lady and I bet we would have been friends.
I agree The Riches of those baskets! Useful, beautiful and essential tools for life! I would love knowing how to make such baskets, and also, weaving cloth and making clothes- such valuable skills!!
All I can say, is that if someone hasn't said it already, then they should've: Her outfit is great! That edging! Those beads! I wanna' know what it looked like in color!
Other than the reason it was made is due to the fact Native American Indians were at the lowest recorded population...they thought they were filming anorher "dodo bird".
@@Peachy08 Just look at the last sentence "a delicacy only an Indian can appreciate" ... if that's not condescending. The bread looked very delicious to me.
This just made me remember that my Polynesian ancestors, similarly, depended on taro as their main source of food - but it too requires lengthy, careful preparation to make it edible. It can be eaten fresh or preserved in a dry state.
Have you noticed how straight is her back when she bends over to pick up the acorns? She bends from the hip and does NOT arch her back. She had perfect posture, and I bet she did not know what back pain was . This made me think of Esther Gokhale´s method.
The key is not that she bends with a straight back, but that as she's bent over she rests her elbow on her knee/thigh--watch at 0:55. That takes the weight off her back, allowing her to keep it straight, & puts the weight onto her thighs which have bigger stronger muscles. That's how she gets relief for the muscles in the lower back. Try it--you'll feel the difference immediately. Haha, as an old lady with back pain, I could see right away what her trick was for being able to hold herself bent over like that, since it's a trick I use myself.
Thank you for uploading this important bit of history. These are not ‘survivalists’ these are Native people and we are resilient. Our Ancestors created these technologies in order to live and thrive and they’re priceless. It’s so good to see our Native elders doing what they did for millennia 🙏🏽 This is all Native Land
looks tasty, I was a posty in NZ on my delivery one day, I saw an old chinese lady collecting acorns off the ground from a acorn tree on the footpath berm, I spoke to her, and she told me she made acorn soup..
I found some old documentary films from the Austrian Alps area on UA-cam..an entire series on growing flax, preparing the fibre, etc. These people are farming on steep slopes..the farmhouse porch seemed to jut out into space! Super interesting that someone thought to preserve this culture on film. Also, like dear Maggie here, the farmers were working with what they had, and figuring out some clever analog solutions for their particular environment.
Thank you for this wonderful upload and for giving us great insights to the old ways....One thing you have to admire the natives is how on earth did they ever figure this stuff out ....knowing how to make the best of things with what little they had. They could teach us a great deal about how good we have it!
I currently have a bowl of acorns leeching in cold water but leaving them in water for a week seems very inefficient and permits them to start going off. This lady clearly has a better method by repeatedly straining cold, then hot water through the ground acorns. I presume the bushy branches she places on top of the strainer are to disperse the pouring water and stop it digging a hole in the layer of acorns. I'll have to experiment further!
from the videos I've seen they grind the acorns first, let it sit for 5-7 days to ferment, then leech it several times. Id imagine at least grinding it first is faster to leech because it increases the surface area; crushed ice will melt faster than a solid cube.
@@92bagder They do not ferment the acorn. The method here is from the Yosemite/Sierra Miwuk. Yes, pounding the acorn into flour (not grinding) makes it easier and faster to leach out the tannins. Ignore the acorns with caps on at the start of the video, those are staged by the filmmaker -- Maggie is using the Black Oak which is the most preferred because it has low tannins and large meats.
@@hebneh Her family is still very much alive and making acorn in the same way. If you can get to Yosemite, visit the Indian cultural museum for more info.
Beautiful film! It is amazing to come across boulders with holes and depressions in them that were used to pound acorns and that the deeper they are the more generations used them.
It illustrates how much love kept primitive people together in the simple sharing of food when you know how much of themselves went into every bite they ate.
I was literally wondering to myself yesterday, in my head, if people make any food out of acorns. I didn’t voice my question to anyone. Then UA-cam recommends this video today. This happens almost too often for me to be sure it is a coincidence.
Very interesting, how they do this. Something that was passed down, through hundreds, possibly thousands of years. These are the kind of videos, people should watch if, they really wanna know how things were done, in the Old Days... Every school, scouts, Civic centers, living history events.
Here in UK we leach the acorn pulp in a netted bag, before grinding, for a few hours at a time, preferably in running stream water, then take it out squeeze it and leach again. Then it is spread out on hot stone to dry to grind up. 😊
White oak doesn't have to be distilled as much as red oak, so it does depend of the species. Some indigenous in the Americas (if not all) also leached acorns in a bag left in the water after collecting and than went back for them. You have to get those tannins out
Awesome! The baskets were woven so fine, they were water tight. I've also heard how ancient native Americans had perfect teeth, because they weren't eating wheat, sugar and things that stuck to the teeth and caused decay.
@@kijilee I don't believe the ancient ones did. They were mainly plant eaters. They were far more intelligent back in the Atlantis days. Before the dark ages we are just coming out of.
This film is a treasure. The alternating between hot and cold rinse, is a brilliant compromise. 1) so that not all of the starch is lost so that it will still stick together for cooking. 2) you're eating same day.
This was a great video, the opening scene shows it taking place with Half Dome in the background. I doubt the National Park Service allows that anymore.
The skill displayed in basketry in this video is flabbergasting. Not only are the baskets beautiful, and made from materials gathered from that land scape, they are INCREDIBLY finely woven, and each with a specific purpose (or multipurpose) within this acorn preparation process. Some of the baskets hold water, which is an incredible feat for a basket maker! Different densities of weaves, each basket perfectly consistent. Hundreds of generations of skilled craftsmanship and relationship and tending to the land are shown during this routine task of making bread to eat. I cannot begin to comprehend such sophistication.
As I watched this video it reminded me of a book I own called “It Will Live Forever” about the traditional Yosemite Indian acorn preparation. In it there are many pictures of Julia F. Parker who tells the story to Beverly Ortiz who is the book’s author. In the book are pictures of Julia’s grandmother, Lucy, who has a striking resemblance to Maggie nee Tra-Bu-Ce. Even the picture of her clothes looks very similar to what Maggie is wearing in the video. Now this comes from the Oregon archive, but I wonder if it is of the same place in Yosemite where they did these demonstrations for many years and if this is actually footage of Lucy in the 30’s. As I was looking through the book, the last page of the introduction has a picture of Maggie Howard, who looks like she could be Maggie nee Tra-Bu-Ce. I am wondering if these are the same people. Thanks for the video, it was wonderful!
@@sirfishslayer5100 Yes, extremely interesting and informative , especially since I found in it what I was looking for : an efficient way to use the acorns I had gleaned . Much needed because what i had found hitherto on the internet was neither !
@@geambro6900 I just processed some last night...used a blender and water to essentially "grind" them...then multiple baths of water and a linen cloth to get the tannin out...prop 6-7 wash cycles and we had a big ball of acorn meal.
@@sirfishslayer5100 I use the blender too. I let the meal rest in water for about 7 days, changing the water 2 or 3 times a day. Very good for ridding the acorns of the tannins but not quick ! I'm going to try the multiple baths method in one go to see if it works the same.
Acorns are everywhere on Earth. 370+ varieties of oak trees. Druids worshipped the oak tree. It’s Mistletoe is medicinal, it’s acorns provide starches, protein, carbs and fat. A large, old growth oak tree can dump up to 2000lbs. of acorns a year. It’s wood is cherished for strength in building materials, Gothic Cathedrals built starting in 500 A.D. utilized gigantic oak beams. It’s like a Supermarket in the woods that provides sustenance suitable to survive most of the year if harvested early and stored long term. Native Americans appreciated this food as a staple of their diet, and a better survival food would be hard to find. Supplementing with game meat and food crops, located en route to the lower elevations for winter. Human history is amazing, every person on Earth has a survivor in their lineage. We had struggle, but I bet that there were people that enjoyed living off Earth like this. It was a mind game, and logistics were involved to plan ahead for the seasons. Every person here has a relative, far enough back, that lived like this.
@@pelayo341 I'm not an expert on the subject, but I'd imagine they'd store as well as any other fatty grain such as whole grain rice. I bet the tannic acid helps to preserve them for longer as well. As far as I've read, Native Americans stored them in hollowed out tree stumps. If they were to mold, it can be wiped off. I guarantee that if you ground them into flower, and then dried the powder in a thin layer in the sun it would add to their shelf life, but I can't say how much. I would probably sun dry the whole kernels and grind and boil them when it was time to make bread, the heat from cooking would be sufficient to kill any lingering bacteria or pathogens.
I bet it's the white oak acorns that rot due to them not having tannins as much, some are actually sweet and would not need to be rinsed. These are red oak acorns which the tannins help preserve. It's a trade off, the tannins make a lot of extra work, but can be stored easily until really needed.
@@hungryplant3849 That makes perfect sense, to me. I need to buckle down this fall and gather all of my local, Sierra Nevada Oak Tree’s acorns. I have Valley Live Oak, Canyon Live Oak, California Black And White Oak within a mile of my house. I’d like to test some of these hypotheses!
When I see her gathering, preparing, and cooking, a great love comes up in my heart, I am mixed 3 ways, but my natural strong love arise in me for my native people more than the others, I love to see things they do, I love the food, and I just go wild for the beautiful music of my brothers, and sisters. May god alway look after them, keep his eyes, and love on them, bless, and forever lead them. LOVE Y'ALL
I know, right? You should check out the Townsends channel, they recreate early colonial American recipes and building techniques etc, and one thing they show in detail (2 or 3 part video I believe) is how to make a simple survival food called pemmican (made of tallow, dried meat and berries) that can last for decades if stored properly.
Clicked for the information, but my favorite part was seeing her beaming smile at the end. I’m glad at least some small part of her, her culture, and knowledge are still here
Taking offense on behalf of someone doesn't make a word inaccurate as a descriptor. Native American culture was indeed primitive compared to European culture at the time. That's kind of the whole reason that the latter supplanted the former.
I was shocked by the nonchalant put downs as well, but the net result is a bit of tribal wisdom has been preserved for the ages. And the fact some of us understand the subtle insults means attitudes are shifting finally. All over the country, it's been good to see Natives embracing their identities and reclaiming the old ways.
It would have been nice if they had identified the type of oak the acorns came from. Some oaks produce acorns that have lower amounts of tannin, while other varieties have a lot more.
Quercus kelloggii, California black oak. She’s gathering them right in front of Half Dome in Yosemite valley, there’s only two prevalent oaks there, the other is quercus chrysolepis, canyon live oak, which has higher tannins and is not used very commonly for meal.
They used the inner lining of fresh redbud bark and would weave it very very tightly. As the material dried out, it would get even tighter making it nearly watertight. A large basket (3-4ft tall, 1-1 1/2ft wide) could retain water for up to two weeks, if left alone and not moved around. The Paiutes of the eastern Sierra would travel often, so they’d use pine pitch to make their water vessels perfectly watertight so they wouldn’t leak while being carried around. But the basket in the video (known as a “dipper” basket) was just the redbud material, no pitch.
Only a human can appreciate, back in the day people were so closed minded. Shame on them ! Overall a great history video, this is the way we connect to what is provided for us!
I love her! I wish it started with her smiling, too - what a warm woman! Could have done without the text belittling the process narrating this footage, but can't expect much else from racist white production companies from 1933. Thanks for sharing this! The gravel pit to allow the acorn mash to drain through the cloth was brilliant!
I can't imagine this much of your day's efforts spent on food. People get all upset if they have to wait two minutes at McDonald's. It's odd that this video portrays a both a harder life and a more simple life.
I bet Maggie never would have guessed how many people have viewed her making acorn bread. I'm sure she'd be happy to know how many people she helped educate
Yes, I've often thought the same watching old videos. Craftspeople or artists, often musicians, from long ago, who would never have believed their works would be viewed around the world.
And I bet her original name was not no Maggie. She’s a real Native American and I’m sure her native parents did not name her Maggie
@@georgecarlin2656 that would be like us asking what your name is based on a photo. We know your name isn't Xiang because you aren't Asian (maybe you are, I have no clue, just an example) but we can't say if your name is Joseph, Aaron, etc.
@@georgecarlin2656 Nothing English. Do you know any indigenous history or do you genuinely think we all have british/european/spanish/french names magically by ourselves since contact with yall making it easier for 'youpeepl'?
Use your brain.
Not that you deserve to know my name, but I know you cant pronounce it. So im good.
My name is Ix'ako Sera'aketsokawe Nungiaakpak.
Im mixed from 2 territories/clans.
American school and Canadian school demanded my name be something settler appropriate like Anthony or Gabriel.
It's called Erasure and assimilation.
We wont be here in another 500 years because of all you. We're forced into a melting pot and forced into mixing.
Random ppl can claim our race now.
Language is dying. This is why you call her Maggie
Recently in America, us speaking our religions and practicing our culture was still illegal.
So no, her name isnt friggen Maggie in this silent video.
Her name is somethign sacred and im glad it isnt known.
None of you deserve to know that. No native owes you anything. This video is out of desperation of her ways dying.
Not for you "survivalists"
How dare you thank her.
Maybe yall just have a hard time swallowing that you're modern culture is apart of our disappearance and erasure.
@@Lone_Star_Outdoors I'm actually Asian, and my name is indeed Xiang, I don't mind it, I'm just curious how do you know it because it's unlikely to be just a random guess.
Maggie looks to be such a beautiful person. She is still teaching and passing on knowledge all these years later, just amazing. Thanks for saving these films.
I'm from central CA, and I grew up eating acorn "bread". My grandmother and her sisters knew how to gather acorn and prepare it to eat. She was Paiute and Me-wuk. I am half Me-wuk.
We also ate pine nuts, way before they were popular in fine restaurants. Mi-chuk-sus!
I've had plenty of pine nut I love the taste does the acorn bread taste good is it something you still eat
do you know what those berries are?
@@klondike69none85 No
what is Ma- wok ??
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Every video I've seen of "survivalists" using hot rocks to heat or boil water always take the rocks straight from the fire and throw it in the water, making the water cloudy with ash and such. This is the first video I've seen of this method where they do a quick rinse of the hot stone before putting it in the main water. Also, every survivalist I've seen cooking on hot rocks never wipes or even attempts to really clean the rock. This video shows this too.
I am glad that i have seen this
I used to think survival, bushcraft and wilderness living required muscle ... Now I know from experience that I barely if ever need any brute muscle hahaha. Just a bit of common sense, knowledge and/or a good teacher go a very very long way.
This video is a good example of that.
Good points to bring out. If a person were to use a limestone the excess lime coming from the rock could near a toxic dose of calcium (enough to cause constipation or stomach aches)
Odd. There’s a time team episode with a Saxon era experimental archaeologist who demonstrates cleaning the stone, and every intelligent bushcraft person I know of does the same.
That's the difference between living multiple generations as a way of life and some poser on YT
Maggie never realised she would become a time travelling teacher…. Thanks for sharing this wonderful video
Heh heh, I bet some natives realized non-linear time better than we assume. She may have seen something in a dream and thought (the "modern" whites won't get it but the ones who come after might be those I saw in that vision, and they sure seem grateful"). What a great smile she has! Oh yea, that comes from generations eating properly. Arthur Haines has a great ancestral diets talk up on YT about this...in any case, given what is going on with our sun, magnetic shield, and political arena I expect this type of practice will be seeing a massive comeback. Peace.
Loved the video. It really shows the effort that went into things we take for granted now. I can't imagine what other knowledge & skills we've lost over time that our ancestors performed on a daily basis. Thanks for sharing.
Electricity and internal combustion engines eliminated a huge amount of hand labor that humans used to have to do, as this movie very clearly shows.
@hedneh that's doesn't account for the loss of knowledge. Machine work to replace labor would have been easily assimilated into Native American culture and cuisine. However, the institutional and governmental ploy to genocide and eliminate the entire culture is evident in this video.
Stick around. The way were headed you may get to live like this before you know it.
there are countless || universes !
With the homesteading movement, more people are learning this way again.
Thank you, Maggie, for sharing your knowledge!
Some of the sign captions seemed a bit condescending at times.
@@jonathandoelander6130 yeah. "Primitive".
@@stacey3637 And "Crude."
Acorn bread with squaw berry, "only an Indian would appreciate". I would appreciate that too. Yea, condescending narrative but the method and results speak for themselves. Superior! Thank you for sharing this wisdom.
@@jonathandoelander6130 Only if you're a self-righteous snowflake Leftist.
That sure is a lot of work, but the smile on her face when she eats the acorn bread is worth it.
Thanks
She actually looked like she wasn't enjoying it.
@@mikegarrison7957 She ,wished she had a box of Little Debbie’s.
Correct you are.
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Those baskets are holding water. The baskets are perfection for the tasks she using them for. her bead and quill work is outstanding and knowledge of Acorns and the nations first Tupperware are phenomenal. What a gem of video! Maggie God Speed!
It's probably coded with like tree sap and Beeswax to make it waterproof
@dizzy now they just charge their phones and act like men
Almighty Loaf she might not have had a phone, but make no mistake, that sweet little lady did her fair share of skinning animals and carrying her weight. The modern-day man would have a difficult time keeping up with her! Those were the days where everyone had to work hard every day for the things that we take for granted these days
@@steviemichelle7271 modern day men still do that
@@AImighty_Loaf no they want to be men without actually doing any of the things a man does.
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Yes. And blessed are those young that have the wisdom to learn from their elders!
Look under any vid of a native and there's someone in the comments saying something goofy life this
The information and details of this video were great. But the whole way through I just kept thinking that Maggie is the cutest thing I ever saw! I love her face. :)
Me too. She has a beautiful smile.
I thought the same thing.
A sweet faced woman
Beautiful people ❤️
Indeed.beautiful face..
That shot of collecting acorns with Half Dome in the background is truly perspective altering. Thank you so much for the vid!
thank you person who got this video from somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is a treasure!!!!
Such a beautiful woman. I can see a beautiful soul in her smile.
Lol. How could you know she wasn't a mean bitch?
Awesome vid; I totally enjoyed it!!!!
She is amazing!!
@@spiroclimb2523 Because she never met you.
I know you're right. She is so cute.
God bless The Native American Ancestors an the knowledge they passed down to us.
Glad someone saved this woman's tradition and skills.
We still do it this way today too. It was sort of sad seeing 1 lonely ndn woman harvesting acorns alone in Yosemite. It was really lovely seeing all those beautiful old baskets being used as they were intended to be used too. Thanks for posting.
A treasure chest of little details here that no modern survivor ever teaches. Mad respect for our ancestors. They had the survival thing down. The modern ones are just amateurs.
We call it survival. They knew it as Life.
@@evolutionangel1 Nicely said
Exactly 💯
Damn. And here I was complaining about washing my blender...I admire them ❤ I love how connected they are with Earth and look so happy 👍
See how good life can be when you don't need money?
I wash my blender by putting warm water and dish soap inside the blender and switch it on for a couple of minutes, so easy 😁 don't use hot water as it can damage the blender. I hope you find this tip useful.
exactly, there's no need for washing up liquid with this method, no trips to shops, no need for any extra exercise, no water waste, no waste of energy. I've also heard of acorn coffee. The method is to put the acorns into hot ashes, cover them, then pound them up into powder, I will be trying this one day. I've tried eating the acorns before without preparation, they were very bitter in the middle, but the outer edge tasted good, I imagine they are like chestnuts when roasted.
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@@tomcollins5112 Sure Tom, most of them died young and starving.
This woman is extremely smart, and her culture is rich. Anyone can appreciate that. Nothing primitive about it.
Well, extremely smart when making acorn bread anyway.
I know this was the mentality back then about her culture being so "backwards". But it's quite useful and smart. I would of never thought of using the ground to absorb the water. I appreciate acorns as a food source.
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Exactly! For example, heating water with a hot stone produces a boil more efficiently than externally applied heat. Not to mention, this is a zero waste, community-building way of producing reliable, nutrient dense food. Brilliant.
That is one of the most beautiful videos ever.
How happy she was when she finally finished making the flour! What a lovely lady. And what a beautiful example of why working with your hands is important.
Tra-Bu-Ce's/Maggie's beautiful smile at 3:51
Everything she's using has been made with her own hands or the hands of someone living in her community. Those baskets that hold water are ASTONISHING. And it's quite possible her brush is homemade with horse hair.
I wanted to try one of the biscuits with berries at the end, lol. The text was very insulting in some places, but Tra-Bu-Ce works with such joy & steady power. I'm so glad this was documented.
Typically the brushes were made with soap root. And the watertight baskets or “dippers” were made of very tightly woven fresh redbud bark (the interior lining of the bark).
This is a wonderful example of how so-called primitive people knew how to use the bounty with which they were surrounded. Amazing knowledge--de bittering the acorns, rinsing the rocks for the hot water, proper storage of the acorns, etc. We are losing knowledge all the time. I remember as a very little girl my mother showing me how to clean a chicken, and carefully explaining how you do not break the gall bladder (she just called it "the gall") as it would make all your meat bitter. If it ever comes to it, I know how to clean a chicken--and now I will be able to make acorn bread. Wonderful video--this woman is a delight! Thanks for sharing.
Primitive by the secular worlds standards not by God's standards.
I wish I had learned more such skills in childhood, the ones I did learn are burned into my synapses in a way that later lessons never were. That includes lessons from parents, lessons passed along by older kids, or lessons learned by accident or trial and error.
I couldn't stop marveling at the craftsmanship of the baskets she was using. It would take me a lifetime to make one of that qualtiy by hand, but I bet she could have one made in a day or two.
Also, if I get a fairy god mother someday, I want it to be her. She seems like such a neat lady and I bet we would have been friends.
I agree The Riches of those baskets! Useful, beautiful and essential tools for life! I would love knowing how to make such baskets, and also, weaving cloth and making clothes- such valuable skills!!
such an unrealistic answer!!!
@@isabelsanchez822 a bit of a rude response but I totally understand where you're coming from and see how it could have come off that way
@@isabelsanchez822 Learning to do things is 'unrealistic'?
Go outside, isabel. Being holed up is apparently getting to your head.
Me, too. Those baskets, so fine and elegant and able to hold water (for God's sake) sure were "primitive", eh?
Such a great video!
My beautiful Mom was born in 1933.
I miss you Momma.. ❤️
Such a precious grandma smile at the end, enjoying her handiwork.
What a beautiful righteous woman! Long live the old ways!
Maggie looks like my Grandmother, LenaMae! 💖😞💖
ROFL So...get off your computer. Turn off your power...who is stopping you?
It was inspiring.
@@edwardr5084 do humanity a favor and turn off the power to YOUR computer.
@@fireoflovewaterofpeace4939 I'm enjoying seeing humanity burn out.
Passing on old ways will keep us living young and long.
I love UA-cam because of these kind of videos. So much knowledge and wisdom lost in the modern educational system.
You mean indoctrination system
@@bsaver5942 Amen brother.
All I can say, is that if someone hasn't said it already, then they should've: Her outfit is great! That edging! Those beads! I wanna' know what it looked like in color!
Beads or bread
@@Sailorsecretindistress Beads. But, now I want to see the whole thing in color!
@@karenl6908 must be an app to convert this directly into colour.. i want to see that shaman outfit now (looks abit like Oleana Uutai)
Look up gingle dress
Acorn is like a comfort food. It kind of is similar to polenta or grits or mashed potato. It is very versatile and is a great nutrition source.
Deer sure love them. I watch them eat them all day under my oak trees. They love water oak acorns the most.
I've tried to cook on rocks before. Maggie makes it look so simple.
What a beautiful woman and teacher. This film is a treasure.
Despite sections of patronizing text, this video is a treasure of information and beauty.
Other than the reason it was made is due to the fact Native American Indians were at the lowest recorded population...they thought they were filming anorher "dodo bird".
Yeah I too noticed that.
@@sinsinnomore5555 what was patronizing about it?
@@Peachy08 Just look at the last sentence "a delicacy only an Indian can appreciate" ... if that's not condescending. The bread looked very delicious to me.
@@misspeach3755 Maybe you are an Indian? Or just looking to be offended?
That was absolutely beautiful. I wish I could have met this lady.
What a gem of a video. And her smile brought me so much joy. ;-)
This just made me remember that my Polynesian ancestors, similarly, depended on taro as their main source of food - but it too requires lengthy, careful preparation to make it edible. It can be eaten fresh or preserved in a dry state.
Have you noticed how straight is her back when she bends over to pick up the acorns? She bends from the hip and does NOT arch her back. She had perfect posture, and I bet she did not know what back pain was
. This made me think of Esther Gokhale´s method.
also nice teeth.
I bet she knew back pain every single day. Perfect posture or not, if you're over 30 and work for your survival you're going to feel it.
@@AtlasReburdened Not necessarily
@@AtlasReburdened Perhaps the lady in this video had no inflammation, due to a natural diet and was pain-free.
The key is not that she bends with a straight back, but that as she's bent over she rests her elbow on her knee/thigh--watch at 0:55. That takes the weight off her back, allowing her to keep it straight, & puts the weight onto her thighs which have bigger stronger muscles. That's how she gets relief for the muscles in the lower back. Try it--you'll feel the difference immediately.
Haha, as an old lady with back pain, I could see right away what her trick was for being able to hold herself bent over like that, since it's a trick I use myself.
Thank you for uploading this important bit of history. These are not ‘survivalists’ these are Native people and we are resilient. Our Ancestors created these technologies in order to live and thrive and they’re priceless. It’s so good to see our Native elders doing what they did for millennia 🙏🏽 This is all Native Land
looks tasty, I was a posty in NZ on my delivery one day, I saw an old chinese lady collecting acorns off the ground from a acorn tree on the footpath berm, I spoke to her, and she told me she made acorn soup..
Thank you miss Maggire nee Tra=Bu-Ce for this very valuable lesson :-)
Sweet happy looking lady. That’s a lot of work. Especially grinding the seed. She must be in excellent health and strong.
Thanks for this! I remember my great grandmother talking about making acorn bread
It’s amazing they are smiling ear to ear the whole time
Excellent use for UA-cam. Getting to see such a thing from so long ago is interesting and helpful to people of today.
I found some old documentary films from the Austrian Alps area on UA-cam..an entire series on growing flax, preparing the fibre, etc. These people are farming on steep slopes..the farmhouse porch seemed to jut out into space! Super interesting that someone thought to preserve this culture on film. Also, like dear Maggie here, the farmers were working with what they had, and figuring out some clever analog solutions for their particular environment.
Oh my goodness! Fabulous video! Thank you so much !
Such a beautiful lady, her hands testify to a lifetime of hard work but her eyes glow with youthful joy.
Such a happy lovely lady. I wish we could hear her speak.
Thank you elder for your wisdom, if not for people like you this country would not exist. May you rest with the Creator grandmother.
I knew several of the techniques but she showed me simple refinement that make so much sense; I have to ask myself why I did not think of them sooner.
The skill, patience and care required to make the bread is amazing.
Thank you for vid.
This may become relevant again soon.
Indeed. We went from the greatest economy this world has ever known, to an economy teetering on the edge in 9 months. Hmm, wonder what changed?
@@russguffee6661 Almost as fast as Venezuela fell
45 won
If only. But I fear we may not be so lucky and continue on with "advancement"
Thank you for this wonderful upload and for giving us great insights to the old ways....One thing you have to admire the natives is how on earth did they ever figure this stuff out ....knowing how to make the best of things with what little they had. They could teach us a great deal about how good we have it!
I currently have a bowl of acorns leeching in cold water but leaving them in water for a week seems very inefficient and permits them to start going off. This lady clearly has a better method by repeatedly straining cold, then hot water through the ground acorns. I presume the bushy branches she places on top of the strainer are to disperse the pouring water and stop it digging a hole in the layer of acorns.
I'll have to experiment further!
from the videos I've seen they grind the acorns first, let it sit for 5-7 days to ferment, then leech it several times. Id imagine at least grinding it first is faster to leech because it increases the surface area; crushed ice will melt faster than a solid cube.
Too bad she's no longer here to be able to explain and demonstrate in person.
Grind them up first then run water over them in a nut milk sack for about five minutes.
@@92bagder They do not ferment the acorn. The method here is from the Yosemite/Sierra Miwuk. Yes, pounding the acorn into flour (not grinding) makes it easier and faster to leach out the tannins. Ignore the acorns with caps on at the start of the video, those are staged by the filmmaker -- Maggie is using the Black Oak which is the most preferred because it has low tannins and large meats.
@@hebneh Her family is still very much alive and making acorn in the same way. If you can get to Yosemite, visit the Indian cultural museum for more info.
Beautiful film! It is amazing to come across boulders with holes and depressions in them that were used to pound acorns and that the deeper they are the more generations used them.
It illustrates how much love kept primitive people together in the simple sharing of food when you know how much of themselves went into every bite they ate.
I was literally wondering to myself yesterday, in my head, if people make any food out of acorns. I didn’t voice my question to anyone. Then UA-cam recommends this video today. This happens almost too often for me to be sure it is a coincidence.
Very interesting, how they do this. Something that was passed down, through hundreds, possibly thousands of years. These are the kind of videos, people should watch if, they really wanna know how things were done, in the Old Days... Every school, scouts, Civic centers, living history events.
What a Beautiful Smile!
Here in UK we leach the acorn pulp in a netted bag, before grinding, for a few hours at a time, preferably in running stream water, then take it out squeeze it and leach again. Then it is spread out on hot stone to dry to grind up. 😊
White oak doesn't have to be distilled as much as red oak, so it does depend of the species. Some indigenous in the Americas (if not all) also leached acorns in a bag left in the water after collecting and than went back for them. You have to get those tannins out
Beautiful smile at the end. A good soul! God bless all the innocents!
Awesome! The baskets were woven so fine, they were water tight.
I've also heard how ancient native Americans had perfect teeth, because they weren't eating wheat, sugar and things that stuck to the teeth and caused decay.
I don't think they ate much meet either. Mostly plants or maybe only plants.
@@truthministries77 no they ate meat as well. Depending on where they were they would eat deer, buffalo, fish ect.
@@kijilee I don't believe the ancient ones did. They were mainly plant eaters. They were far more intelligent back in the Atlantis days. Before the dark ages we are just coming out of.
@@kijilee meat eating is most likely black magic taught to the earthlings by visitors. Who knows
@@truthministries77 Atlantis is a myth
This film is a treasure. The alternating between hot and cold rinse, is a brilliant compromise. 1) so that not all of the starch is lost so that it will still stick together for cooking. 2) you're eating same day.
Pure magic! Thank you Maggie for the share!!
Absolutely beautiful!!!
She has a beautiful smile.
What a priceless and inspiring video! Bless Maggie and those who share their wisdom with others. 🙏
AS a child watching, thinking, hey just go to the store, great video, very cool bread.
I taught about this in school but never knew how they did it until now. Awesome video.
This is a lesson that may come in handy in the future, for the way things are going in our country.
💯 that's why it popped up in my feed, been watching all kinds of videos bout this stuff lately
Only if women are allowed out of our homes, the way the Republicans like things...
This is amazing so glad someone thought to document it!!! Thank you for sharing!!
This was a great video, the opening scene shows it taking place with Half Dome in the background. I doubt the National Park Service allows that anymore.
The skill displayed in basketry in this video is flabbergasting. Not only are the baskets beautiful, and made from materials gathered from that land scape, they are INCREDIBLY finely woven, and each with a specific purpose (or multipurpose) within this acorn preparation process. Some of the baskets hold water, which is an incredible feat for a basket maker! Different densities of weaves, each basket perfectly consistent. Hundreds of generations of skilled craftsmanship and relationship and tending to the land are shown during this routine task of making bread to eat. I cannot begin to comprehend such sophistication.
As I watched this video it reminded me of a book I own called “It Will Live Forever” about the traditional Yosemite Indian acorn preparation. In it there are many pictures of Julia F. Parker who tells the story to Beverly Ortiz who is the book’s author. In the book are pictures of Julia’s grandmother, Lucy, who has a striking resemblance to Maggie nee Tra-Bu-Ce. Even the picture of her clothes looks very similar to what Maggie is wearing in the video.
Now this comes from the Oregon archive, but I wonder if it is of the same place in Yosemite where they did these demonstrations for many years and if this is actually footage of Lucy in the 30’s. As I was looking through the book, the last page of the introduction has a picture of Maggie Howard, who looks like she could be Maggie nee Tra-Bu-Ce.
I am wondering if these are the same people.
Thanks for the video, it was wonderful!
I have this book too, I think they're the same people.
@@geambro6900 Have you read it? I thought it was very interesting, informative and just fantastic all around!
@@sirfishslayer5100 Yes, extremely interesting and informative , especially since I found in it what I was looking for : an efficient way to use the acorns I had gleaned . Much needed because what i had found hitherto on the internet was neither !
@@geambro6900 I just processed some last night...used a blender and water to essentially "grind" them...then multiple baths of water and a linen cloth to get the tannin out...prop 6-7 wash cycles and we had a big ball of acorn meal.
@@sirfishslayer5100 I use the blender too. I let the meal rest in water for about 7 days, changing the water 2 or 3 times a day. Very good for ridding the acorns of the tannins but not quick ! I'm going to try the multiple baths method in one go to see if it works the same.
I always asked as a kid why we didn't eat acorns....
This answers my questions... thank you
Acorns are everywhere on Earth. 370+ varieties of oak trees. Druids worshipped the oak tree. It’s Mistletoe is medicinal, it’s acorns provide starches, protein, carbs and fat. A large, old growth oak tree can dump up to 2000lbs. of acorns a year. It’s wood is cherished for strength in building materials, Gothic Cathedrals built starting in 500 A.D. utilized gigantic oak beams.
It’s like a Supermarket in the woods that provides sustenance suitable to survive most of the year if harvested early and stored long term. Native Americans appreciated this food as a staple of their diet, and a better survival food would be hard to find. Supplementing with game meat and food crops, located en route to the lower elevations for winter.
Human history is amazing, every person on Earth has a survivor in their lineage. We had struggle, but I bet that there were people that enjoyed living off Earth like this. It was a mind game, and logistics were involved to plan ahead for the seasons. Every person here has a relative, far enough back, that lived like this.
Acorns rot if stored. Is there a method for storing them? I thought maybe roasting them but I don't really know
@@pelayo341 I'm not an expert on the subject, but I'd imagine they'd store as well as any other fatty grain such as whole grain rice. I bet the tannic acid helps to preserve them for longer as well. As far as I've read, Native Americans stored them in hollowed out tree stumps. If they were to mold, it can be wiped off. I guarantee that if you ground them into flower, and then dried the powder in a thin layer in the sun it would add to their shelf life, but I can't say how much. I would probably sun dry the whole kernels and grind and boil them when it was time to make bread, the heat from cooking would be sufficient to kill any lingering bacteria or pathogens.
I bet it's the white oak acorns that rot due to them not having tannins as much, some are actually sweet and would not need to be rinsed. These are red oak acorns which the tannins help preserve. It's a trade off, the tannins make a lot of extra work, but can be stored easily until really needed.
@@hungryplant3849 That makes perfect sense, to me. I need to buckle down this fall and gather all of my local, Sierra Nevada Oak Tree’s acorns. I have Valley Live Oak, Canyon Live Oak, California Black And White Oak within a mile of my house. I’d like to test some of these hypotheses!
I'm thinking the same thing.
When I see her gathering, preparing, and cooking, a great love comes up in my heart, I am mixed 3 ways, but my natural strong love arise in me for my native people more than the others, I love to see things they do, I love the food, and I just go wild for the beautiful music of my brothers, and sisters. May god alway look after them, keep his eyes, and love on them, bless, and forever lead them. LOVE Y'ALL
This is a useful, survival video, just in case life gets difficult. Jesus, I pray things never get that bad.
I know, right? You should check out the Townsends channel, they recreate early colonial American recipes and building techniques etc, and one thing they show in detail (2 or 3 part video I believe) is how to make a simple survival food called pemmican (made of tallow, dried meat and berries) that can last for decades if stored properly.
true but you know idiots will chop down the oak trees for firewood
@@blakespower The ones who are still alive?
Clicked for the information, but my favorite part was seeing her beaming smile at the end. I’m glad at least some small part of her, her culture, and knowledge are still here
This footage is priceless. The subtitles or text is rather patronising. She's far from primitive. I'm going to bake acorn bread.
Isn't it? The finishing sentence "a delicacy only an Indian can appreciate" ... pffft ... to me that looked extremely delicious.
Taking offense on behalf of someone doesn't make a word inaccurate as a descriptor. Native American culture was indeed primitive compared to European culture at the time. That's kind of the whole reason that the latter supplanted the former.
Do you not know what words mean this is the very definition of primitive is not some slur it's a descriptive word meaning doing things the old way
I was shocked by the nonchalant put downs as well, but the net result is a bit of tribal wisdom has been preserved for the ages. And the fact some of us understand the subtle insults means attitudes are shifting finally. All over the country, it's been good to see Natives embracing their identities and reclaiming the old ways.
Amazing, I love watching things like this 💕 started watching at 1:11 pm ✨ what a beautiful soul 👏
"Primitive"??? Naw son, that's just straight up intelligent, this is forgotten knowledge. We are going backwards sometimes. Country livin' is best.
fr this.
Damn right!!
This is beyond amazing
It would have been nice if they had identified the type of oak the acorns came from. Some oaks produce acorns that have lower amounts of tannin, while other varieties have a lot more.
Quercus kelloggii, California black oak. She’s gathering them right in front of Half Dome in Yosemite valley, there’s only two prevalent oaks there, the other is quercus chrysolepis, canyon live oak, which has higher tannins and is not used very commonly for meal.
Red oaks and white oaks....you can eat both. White have more water and take longer to dry.
White oaks have less tannin. Red oaks have more tannins.
@@Sundayhandwound thank you for the correct info. I was wondering what type of oak myself.
@@markberryhill2715 no worries, I grew up in Kingsburg, CA, lots of time well spent up and down the Sierras!
The patience and tenacity of women...our greatest resource!
I’m really impressed with her basket. I wonder how they made them?
We need another video on that!
Weaving
@@withgoddess1119 lol! Thanks!
They used the inner lining of fresh redbud bark and would weave it very very tightly. As the material dried out, it would get even tighter making it nearly watertight. A large basket (3-4ft tall, 1-1 1/2ft wide) could retain water for up to two weeks, if left alone and not moved around. The Paiutes of the eastern Sierra would travel often, so they’d use pine pitch to make their water vessels perfectly watertight so they wouldn’t leak while being carried around. But the basket in the video (known as a “dipper” basket) was just the redbud material, no pitch.
Only a human can appreciate, back in the day people were so closed minded. Shame on them !
Overall a great history video, this is the way we connect to what is provided for us!
Watching in Oct 2021 like damn I might actually need this to survive soon… (takes detailed notes)
The beauty of the countryside is breath taking. It is so clean and pure. I'm not even outdoorsy. Would love to paint that.
I love her! I wish it started with her smiling, too - what a warm woman! Could have done without the text belittling the process narrating this footage, but can't expect much else from racist white production companies from 1933. Thanks for sharing this! The gravel pit to allow the acorn mash to drain through the cloth was brilliant!
Owesome! Her face shines with happiness and such a careful cook, mindful of every step she takes, never wasting any resource...
I have a good appreciation for being able to buy the flour at the store...or better yet a loaf of wheat bread for about 5 min of my labor cost.
Then you have to worry about the poisons evil people put in our foods.
Maggie passed on a lot of knowledge in this short film. We are blessed.
Awesome video
Ok UA-cam. I'll freaking watch it. It's been recommended for months now. I'm sick of seeing the thumbnail. You win. I bow down
I can't imagine this much of your day's efforts spent on food. People get all upset if they have to wait two minutes at McDonald's. It's odd that this video portrays a both a harder life and a more simple life.
Her smile at the end after she takes a bite ☺️ worth all the hard work.. like after you spend 20 mins scraping together your last bowl.. 🌬
This was Almost 100 years ago and I just watched a film of a woman making bread out of acorns………
Thanks Ytube, this was a great and splendid find.