{"id":2673,"date":"2021-10-28T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/?page_id=2673"},"modified":"2022-01-26T13:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T21:19:47","slug":"tools-and-tech","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/tools-and-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools and Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div  class='flex_column av-25fh83-231b1bdfcb0734a8438f1bead70a344d av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  first flex_column_div  '     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-kv9r33bx-4fc209c04b8876510c6c45abb26857a2 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Tools and Tech<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Hozameen: A story about chert, identity, and landscape<\/h3>\n<p>Hozomeen chert is a locally abundant and distinctive tool stone found exclusively in the northern Cascade range of Washington and British Columbia. Over the last two decades, archeologist Bob Mierendorf has studied quarries near today&#8217;s Ross Lake reservoir that reveal a 10,000 year long record of indigenous involvement with this rugged, high-mountain landscape. The word Hozomeen means &#8220;sharp, like a sharp knife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Its story cuts across time and place, cultures and borders, archeology and oral histories, connecting us all as human beings. As Bob says, we&#8217;re all descended from people who used stone to make their tools. &#8220;It&#8217;s what put food on the table for thousands of years.&#8221; Produced by: Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele, bdsjs.com Funded by: Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<div class='avia-iframe-wrap'><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hozomeen: A story about chert, identity, and landscape\" width=\"1500\" height=\"844\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uyqjLqJoTWo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/atlatl\/\">Atlatl\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Atlatls are ancient weapons that preceded the bow and arrow in most parts of the world and are one of humankind\u2019s first mechanical inventions. The word atlatl (pronounced at-latal or atal-atal) comes from the Nahuatl language of the Aztec, who were still using them when encountered by the Spanish in the 1500s.\u200b\u200b From World Atlatl \u200bAssociaton\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/cedar-tree-of-life\/\">Cedar &#8211; The Tree of Life\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From the mighty cedar of the rainforest came a wealth of raw materials vital to the early Northwest Coast Indian way of life, its art and culture. For thousands of years these people developed the tools and technologies to fell the giant cedars that grew in profusion.&#8221; Hilary Stewart, Cedar<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/fish-traps\/\">Fish Traps\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p>First Nations managed a vast, highly-productive, industrial-scale fish \u200bharvesting complex in the estuary of the Courtenay River. At first, the elaborate arrangement of 300 ingenious traps on the sandy flats of the river mouth harvested herring, which still mass to spawn off the east coast of Vancouver Island every March.But 700 years ago, perhaps in response to climate change, the technology was altered to exploit pink, chum, coho, chinook and possibly sockeye salmon.<\/p>\n<p>Highly coordinated traps equal in technological sophistication to contemporary commercial fishing traps, enabled the operators to regulate escapement of spawning stocks and maintain abundance, precisely the sustainable resource management model we strive for today.\u200b \u200b (Words from this article\u200b)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/fishing\/\">Fishing\u200b<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book titles &#8211; Found in SD71 Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/Stone-Bone-Antler-and-Shell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/Stone-Bone-Antler-and-Shell.jpg 436w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/Stone-Bone-Antler-and-Shell-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-998\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/The-Inuit-Thought-of-It.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/The-Inuit-Thought-of-It.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/The-Inuit-Thought-of-It-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/A-Native-American-Thought-of-It.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/A-Native-American-Thought-of-It.jpg 386w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2021\/05\/A-Native-American-Thought-of-It-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Sq&#8217;\u00e9wlets: People of the Sturgeon<\/h3>\n<p><a class=\"inline welcome\" title=\"Listen to a Welcome Message\" href=\"http:\/\/digitalsqewlets.ca\/index-eng.php#welcome\">Kw\u00e9leches, hello and welcome! <i class=\"icon-volume-up\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are the Sq\u2019\u00e9wlets People. We are Sqw\u014dwich, People of the Sturgeon. This website shares our journey from ancient times to the present. Join us as we tell of our origins and personal histories, what we call our s<u>x<\/u>w\u014d<u>x<\/u>wiy\u00e1m and sqw\u00e9lqwel. We live where the Harrison and Fraser Rivers of British Columbia meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1:wkw\u2019 (belongings) are the things our ancestors made and used. Archaeologists call these \u2018artifacts.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3522 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/Spear-Points-Sturgeon-Sqewlets-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/Spear-Points-Sturgeon-Sqewlets-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/Spear-Points-Sturgeon-Sqewlets-705x647.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2022\/01\/Spear-Points-Sturgeon-Sqewlets.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Spear Points for Sturgeon from <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalsqewlets.ca\/sqwelqwel\/belongings-possessions\/index-eng.php\">Sq&#8217;\u00e9welts Our Belongings<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 03:20:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"post_tag","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2673\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comoxvalleyschools.ca\/indigenous-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}