2019 People of the Big River Field Class

July 19, 2019 This morning was freezing, it was honestly the coldest during this entire trip. It could be my body wanting to come home already but let’s just say that I am ready to go home and sleep in my own bed. After waking up I got up and went to shower and change. Funny thing was that a few of us in our little village were supposed to wake up by five to go sand dollar hunting but that did not happen. After getting dressed I started packing and organizing my bag. I was so extremely ready to get out of there. Don’t get me wrong, the beach is a beautiful place to wake up to but gosh was I home sick.  After breakfast, Bee and I went to walk alongside the shores for a while. After speaking and saying our goodbye to the ocean and sand we headed back to the rv. That’s when I realized that  my team and I were in charge of organizing our foods into piles and throwing out what wasn’t good. Which on a normal day, I am all for organizing but today I was so lazy and didn’t want to d

July 18, 2019 This morning we woke up and knew that today was travel day. After doing it for what felt like months, we all had a system when it came to taking down our tent and sharing responsibility. For my tentmates, we knew that before breakfast we wanted to have the majority of our things packed if not be fully packed. When it came to the tent tear down, we knew that Bee and Same would take care of it since the mishap that occurred in Deschutes (a tent pole snapped and was repaired by bright red tape).  After packing and getting loaded up we hit the road. We had planned to stop at Eugene in order to use the public library and upload our blogs. We arrived in Eugene and it was so amazing. I felt like I was in Seattle or a large city, so it felt nice. Once we entered the library, we all spread out to type our little hearts away. After an hour passed, a group of decided to go with Brandon to eat some Asian food. So, we all jumped up and left to the restaurant. We started to pa

July 17, 2019 Today we woke up at an earlier time than before. It was our full day with the Klamath tribe and the fish and wildlife building. When we got to the location we were greeted by Alex and two of his co-workers. During our time at this location I honestly was so intrigued by how much knowledge was poured out.  Alex started the conversation with a history lesson about when the fur trappers came into Klamath in the 1820s and proceeded to speak about the history the town had.  In 1864, the Modoc war was happening which lead to the treaty of 1864. This treaty ended up combining three tribes into one tribe. The Klamath tribe is consisted of the Modoc, Klamath, and Yahooskin tribes. In 1986, the tribes petitioned the government to be a federal entity and was granted it. The termination act gave the tribe only 12,000 acres of land versus the 2.2 million acres they once had.  It was mentioned that only thirteen native fish’s circles around the Klamath river basin, and now