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It Will Live Forever: Traditional Yosemite Indian Acorn Preparation
It Will Live Forever Traditional Yosemite Indian Acorn Preparation Author:Beverly R. Ortiz, Julia F. Parker For centuries, the Yosemite Indians have been gathering acorns, drying and storing them, and pounding, winnowing, sifting, leaching, and cooking them in a highly evolved, elegant, and skillful process. _It Will Live Forever_ looks at Julia Parker, a Kashaya Pomo woman who married into the Yosemite Miwok tribe and is still practicing this traditi... more »onal art as Indian women have done for generations. Along with demonstrating the various steps of acorn preparation, Julia reminisces about her life, from her early experience of being sent to Indian boarding school to her current job of demonstrating acorn preparation at Yosemite National Park. _It Will Live Forever_ remains the only source of intimate descriptions of one of the most vital aspects of traditional California Indian life. It has sold more than 5,000 copies.« less