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I could listen to Randy for hours. Thank you both

Thank you Randy. Thank you Nick.

That was the best 33 minutes I had all day , just listening to Randy. I know it can't be topped by anything else for the rest of the day. Thanks Nick and Randy.

I love listening to Randy

Thank you Randy, for your wisdom and your painstaking and purposeful sharing of original culture. it is understandable that some in your heritage do not wish to share these gifts. Some among us can see such value. TNC has done a good thing here, and elsewhere. Thank you Nick.

Randy is such an amazing human!

We love Randy's humor and it is always good when you two go exploring.

Beautiful time communing with the Ancestors in such a place of antiquity. 💗 Thank you Nick, and thank you Randy for giving us this blessing, and to help us understand how it is to grow up connected to the land in such a deep way.

Thank you Randy.. and yes the more I know the stories, the more I want to protect that sacred land. You teach me how to tell my Grand children the stories of my elders.

Thanks again Nick and Randy! This was a great Memorial Day gift. Every episode with Randy I feel like I’m a part of his history and family. Thank you Randy

"A wild people don't generally tame anything." - Randy Lewis

I smile with each Nick Zentner upload, but I smile BIG when Randy Lewis is included.😁

This was so special, thank you for Sharing. I agree, could listen to Randy all day. They say that our elders have a wealth of knowledge...its true.

I always feel better after listening to Randy…thank you!

So much wonderful rich history!!! Remarkable share Nick. Wow

Thank you Randy!

Thank you Randy for sharing this. I always learn something when listen to you. And thank you too, Nick.

I’m so very grateful to Randy for sharing his stories, his life, his history. And, of course, to you Nick for bringing it to us here on your channel. Such beautiful land and history. ❤

Hello Randy, good to hear from you sir.

Nick, thank you for making the indigenous peoples story a part of your search for knowledge.

My wife's great grand parents and grand parents lived near Hog Canyon Falls near Fish Trap Lake by Cheney WA. They traded goods with the Indians living nearby in the high desert. This was a time where people actually lived and thrived together. We still have some very old black and white photos of Indians visiting their small house and have scanned them for a family history living book we completed six years ago.

Thank you Randy and Nick. A beautiful place made more beautiful by all the history imparted by Randy. Thanks again.

Go Nature Conservancy! Go Nick and Randy! What an honor to share your visits with Randy, I wish the other geology teachers would incorportate First Nation interviews and wisdom.

I appreciate Randy's time and his stories. That sky at the very end was picture perfect.

Thanks so much to Randy for sharing so generously with us his history.

Thank you Randy for sharing the wisdom of your people with us! ❤

Thank you for documenting these conversations, the history and Randy's oral tradition! I could listen to Randy for days.

keep this land protected at all costs

Being able to listen to Randy is a gift. His history keeps me humble.

That was a beautiful walk. Thank you.

Thank you Randy and Nick. Respect!

Thank you Randy ❤

To think there was a time only a couple of years ago, when some of Nick's followers didn't get why a scientific-minded geologic audience ought to be interested in Randy's different flavor of teaching. But Nick knew better. And now we are all benefitting.

Thanks Nick, wonderful share from Mr Randy I will be more careful walking by Columbia River now, all those chips that I picked up and never knew ‼️

Great video! Thank you for taking the time to document the history and culture!

So wonderful to hear how reverently Randy looks at nature and the landscape. We have much to learn.

Seeing Randy made me instantly click to watch. We need Randy to share as much as possible, he is a guru of Illahee.

Randy connects us to our common neolithic ancestry of hunter gatherers. Can you imagine hiking the Salisbury plain today and bumping into a local descendant who'd explain to you all the mysteries of the Stonehenge monoliths as they were being erected? And that would be some hundreds of generations before Plato and Archimedes so he'd also pass on word-of-mouth stories about them as well. You are hanging out with a living treasure!

It's important to see this land for the value it has had historically as a part of the cycles for all life. Knowledge passed on by those who know is invaluable in protecting it, as Randy says. Thank you Nick for recording, and Randy for teaching.

Thank you Randy, for taking Nick, and the rest of us, to this special place. I am so glad to see it protected. The Nature Conservancy isn't as popular as they should be, over here in Idaho, considering the contributions they are making to preserve Nature and rewild damaged ecosystems. I dearly hope that they are not the ones who moved the rock wall from its historical site. Thank you, Nick, for sharing this :)

Thank you Randy, well said. stay healthy - we need you for the long count.

Thank you Randy! Thank you Nick! This is thrilling! Roaming around the coulees and hills of the Columbia, one comes across so many signs of tool work, long-used trails, and ancient walls. (I say hi to things and leave them be.) Love knowing about the Indigenous Archaeoastronomy, too! Also, big thanks to TNC for protecting Moses Coulee and Sage Grouse and Pygmy Rabbits who call the land home. ❤️🐇🌻🐏🪶❤️

Now THIS IS GOLD!

Truly impressive man, Randy Lewis. I feel lucky to have heard this. And, I was lucky a week or so ago, when my wife and I got to visit this magical spot...behind the gate at the Moses Coulee Station. We were allowed in as part of a birding tour associated with the Leavenworth Birdfest, led by Joe Veverka, the Steward with NC for Moses Coulee. That was a treat, and this was too. Thank you, Mr. Lewis and the Nature Conservancy for protecting and honoring this land!

As brilliant as the glacier and flood stories.

Thank you, Randy. You make me yearn to visit and learn more, while, at the same time, increase my desire to fiercely protect these places. Thank you, Nick, for letting us experience these spaces vicariously so that they remain protected.

A beautiful and touching account ❤

I tend to agree with Randy that it's important to get the word out on these places and what they mean to the tribes that were here first, and the reason why it's necessary. Tribal members can complain in the short term about preserving their parochial interest in keeping these places to themselves, but in doing so they put those very places at risk, simply because none of us NON-tribal folks aren't going to inherently know how crucial they are, or were, to the tribes that lived here; and without this knowledge we could develop it without a second thought, and those sacred places would be no more. History is replete with examples of that throughout America, and you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube once it's happened. So I'm grateful that Randy would share this knowledge and history; I think it's our best assurance that these places will remain untouched by future generations who might otherwise have been ignorant of their cultural significance.

I'm rarely commenting nowadays, but I'm always watching the new episodes, and I'm still very grateful and amazed by all the great knowledge you are kind enough to share with us. BIG RESPECT PROF. ZENTNER AND ALL YOUR COLLEAGUES for all you do. I'm not a geologist, just a geology fun, and immensely respect and love your community, and I'm very grateful for all that I learn from you, and all that I have the opportunity to see through your camera's lenses. Thanks you,

Lovely Randy✌️💯

Thank you for a fascinating video.

Thank you Nick for giving Randy a platform, he touches on the conundrum of publicizing historical sites, especially those once occupied by native peoples. Great that the Conservancy gives him access, great that he shows that artifacts are not to be collected. I need to try talking to them the next time I find some. I learned about the policy of not collecting when I was a uniformed volunteer at a State Park in California, in fact we'd hide found objects once making note of them. Geological endeavors were highly restricted, chert was a four-letter word even though chert was everywhere in the park.

this is an honor to hear

This chap is an absolute legend. Just love listening to him.

Thank you Nick and Randy!! I love these episodes with the two of you out walking the coulees!

Mr. Nick, Mr. Randy My understanding is more fully rounded with your Telling. Thank you Nick And especially Mr. Randy's remembering. He easily sees things overlooked by those who haven't practiced the traditions... Thanks Fine Sir

Thank you Nick for sharing Randy; thank you Randy for sharing your culture and memories.

Thank you for sharing your wisdom Randy, may you live long.

The reason I love listening to Randy,,He has so much to teach us. I benefit from his teaching .I have a totally different mindset ,understanding on the environment .What are the consequences good or bad when we change the surrounding environment ( the land) ???? We need more people like Randy

Thanks heaps for this. Here in NZ, Green and Indigenous interests have realised that we're fighting for the same thing and we tend to combine our forces to get recognition, documentation and protection for the precious areas that remain. Gatekeeping this info is a luxury we cannot afford; everything has to be thrown at preserving our remaining wilderness and cultural sites and anyone who wants to help in good faith has to be welcomed into the struggle. New Zealand is full of wealthy psychopaths who want to build McMansions over everything; if people are thinking land seizure is a thing of the past, just look into what's been bought up and corruptly rezoned/developed in your own areas. Thanks to everyone in the Yakima Nation who is working to keep the land and its biome out of the hands of Big Ag and shitty landsnatchers. Kia Kaha.

For folks who have never had the opportunity to go out west and see the massive amount of open spaces that are protected...you cannot imagine so much open space..it's wonderful. Places so quiet you can hear the blood running through your head. It was weirdly unnerving..a sense of being completely on your own.

I hope these videos are becoming at part of the archives at the museum in Washington DC.

Randy embodies the greatness that modern "culture" has discarded.

Thanks again for giving me an education

this guy is wonderful!

This video was like putting time on pause. My time, life's time, the world's time-all of it slowed for a moment to let everything that came before catch up. Sort of like opening a window to let the past come in and refresh the air of the present.

Love you Randy!

Respect the land and your flashes of luck when you most need them will be phenomenal.

I enjoy Randy’s stories, his passing along some of his oral history. BTW, greasewood is most commonly found on sodic (alkali) soils associated with closed basins that don’t drain to the ocean, like the Great Basin, where moisture evaporates to the atmosphere, rather than drain from it (and remove the salts and alkali as it leaves). Another place in Washington that shows these sodic soils, and the telltale greasewood, is at Leahy Junction at the northern end of the Waterville Plateau - always a bit of an anomaly to me.

Great video!

Thank you i love your stories, ( so interesting and informative, ) i also enjoy your humor and speaking voice. My hubsnd Blair Csuti worked with the Nature Conservancy and the Universities of Oregon and Washington and the Portland Zoo you may have met him.

WOW!

More good stuff with Randy. Who will tell these stories when he is gone? I hope someone will be here.

As a point of reference, 600 generations is im the neighborhood of 16000 years... wow

YES.

Want to come there sooo bad!!! Interesting!

This is amazing there very little information about the cultures that lived in this area I grew up in Moses lake and have always wanted to know about the people who were here in this place before us

My granddaughter filled her pockets and then my pockets😂🎉❤🎉 the last time we climbed the cliffs of Kings square. On the way home she picked up a piece of concrete 🤓. Another day near Queens Square we found green stone and pottery that dated from 1870's while combing the beach.🍀💚🍀👍🤷🏼‍♀️🖖🌟⭐✨⭐🌟

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Randy could have his own KZfaq channel and it would be very successful. 600 generations? It’s sad what USA government has done to Indian tribes.

Bonjour from Quebec 😊

🪶 crab creek is my favorite place on earth

“A wild people don’t tame anything.” I’m reminded of being with the Navaho in a remote part of Monument Valley and coming upon a flock of sheep and the dogs that tended them. No fences, no shepherd. Young dogs learn from the old dogs how to mind sheep we were told.

when you find yourself anywhere in a place that is not developed, that has been left to be itself, do you find yourself feeling the way that Mr Lewis, and Prof Zentner feel, reverent? or do you find yourself thinking, "this would be a great place to build a subdivision..."

Really interesting that jasper was preferred over obsidian.

I've never seen a Volcanic that benefits from heat treatment. There's a chert source somewhere in the vicinity.

Curious to know if any botanists have gone out in this area and made any plant identifications.