Randy Lewis in Moses Coulee (part 3)

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Randy Lewis in Moses Coulee (part 3)

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Part 3 of 4. Wenatchi/P'squosa tribal elder Randy Lewis (K'ayaxan) shares wisdom with CWU's Nick Zentner. Filmed on June 11, 2021. Part 1: • Randy Lewis in Moses C... Part 2: • Randy Lewis in Moses C... Part 4: • Randy Lewis in Moses C...

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@thomaslvickywettengel3041 3 жыл бұрын

I could listen to Randy all day long

@jamesparker6876 3 жыл бұрын

Randy Lewis honors us by teaching us as though were members of his family.

@peppers1587 3 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. And we are all richer for the knowledge we gain.

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

@@peppers1587 This is also what makes Nick so special. Sharing the geology stories with what he knows is one thing; to invite us into what those processes meant and provided to First Nations that inhabited these places marries the geology element with the people element, and what it meant for a compact society that thrived off of what the land and nature provided and the oral traditions that came from that. We're reminded that this is how humanity was meant to live -- to be one with God and Nature and make use of their gifts and give back in order for God and Nature to continue to provide their nourishment and livelihoods. It often reminds me of the "Lilies of the field" verses in the New Testament -- how everything that nourishes us is right in front of us, that God has provided everything we need if we'll only love and respect His provisions and Him for providing it. The modern marvels we've produced has allowed us to see the world, heal the sick, and redefine society; and I wouldn't necessarily give it all back. But at the same time these technological advances have helped produce destructive behaviors in our society - anxiety, envy, resentment, greed, and hierarchical social structures that promote a lust for power and control. That's not how God meant us to live, yet we've lost that connection and in the process we've taken away something sacred from our indigenous societies, which I'm always reminded of when Randy speaks. Our lack of respect for the civilizations _they_ built out of Providence is palpable.

@gailroberts3842 3 жыл бұрын

These segments with Randy Lewis make us richer: in knowledge, understanding, and respect for the land and the people who know it intimately and love it. The humor brings us in so we feel like part of the family. Thank you both so much.

@susanliebermann5721 3 жыл бұрын

Nick and Randy, thank you so much for this extraordinary gift of remembering. Nick, you have achieved something even Oprah never mastered: shut up and let the guest talk! Good job!

@butter262 3 жыл бұрын

This man is a national treasure. Thank you both.

@p4p3rm4t3 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Randy and Nick! Words aren't enough.

@billjcanada 3 жыл бұрын

Another excellent series. Randy is a wealth of knowledge

@donnacsuti4980 3 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful treat to see. I Iove learning about native plants and their uses.. Love to hear his stories and see the beautiful country. ❤ thanks so much to you both for taking us along

@tracychesnutt3660 3 жыл бұрын

What a joy it is to hear the history of Randy's people. I'm grateful to Nick for showing how important both people and rocks can be.

@flakesinyershoe8137 3 жыл бұрын

Native horticulture is awesome. This is like attending an archaeological society presentation but the information is firsthand.

@mikefriend1514 3 жыл бұрын

Don’t lose the child within you! Smell this and you will never forget this place….love the wisdom against the backdrop of such an amazing landscape.

@beaddemon2572 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! I'm in awe of this series with Randy.

@anthonyjames6179 3 жыл бұрын

Very honored that Randy will share publicly that which is not taught in more rigid traditions. I hope more people listen and learn. Thank you Randy and Nick.

@peacenow4456 3 жыл бұрын

Love Randy and his timeless wisdom. Thanks for telling us the People's story of your land and sharing this with us, Randy...

@ExoticTerrain 3 жыл бұрын

I love when you two get together!

@gordonormiston3233 3 жыл бұрын

A great man ! Totally in touch with his worlds. So different from our regimented and scientific ones. Thanks again Nick for sharing your friend with us. 🐻

@urbanwillis2212 3 жыл бұрын

When I was 19 years old and just starting with a new family (wife was 20 when we had our first child) I couldn't afford to pay attention much less drive the twenty miles one way to work. An old friend of mine was a Cherokee/Comanche that was an old time machinist. That old fellow came by my house and sat in front until I came out. He hauled me to work and back every day for a year. He helped me understand the world we are living in with his brand of philosophe. I often wonder where he ended up as well as those old time machinist we worked with back in the early 1960s. The spiritual world within is as important as the physical world we live in. We just don't let it show as much.

@deanhowell6730 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful experience, thanks for sharing.

@okiejammer2736 3 жыл бұрын

Never would I imagine I'd get teary over the blessings of horn toads. There is always a Takeaway (or 10) from this special, gentle man. Thank you both.

@Anne5440_ Жыл бұрын

Yes!

@jamespeterson2285 3 жыл бұрын

I’m joying this conversation very much.

@cyndikarp3368 3 жыл бұрын

We have been Blessed to hear the stories. Thank you for sharing for us to share & enjoy.

@DanSpotYT 3 жыл бұрын

Too many great things to say but you gentlemen are amazing! Thank you both for sharing!

@MusterdTiger 2 жыл бұрын

What great stories to share with us. Very special videos, thank you Randy.

@greenoregonian2907 3 жыл бұрын

Having not even finished this, I’m already looking forward to 4/4

@Tatterdemalion-77 3 жыл бұрын

Randy, your Grandma must have been a very special person indeed.

@beefandbarley 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick, thank you Randy.

@chtdmt 3 жыл бұрын

Appreciate the native perspective. Thanks, Randy for passing your wisdom on. Thanks, Professor Nick for providing the conduit. This is precious information.

@lwhitaker4054 3 жыл бұрын

So absolutely privileged, the knowledge and stories Randy shared with us. Thank - you for filming and posting.....and thank him.

@zazouisa_runaway4371 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Randy Thanks Nick!

@Valkyrie801 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You! :)

@ginfonte3386 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you both so much. I hear and feel more each time I listen. I can't wait to revisit the places I love in Utah to experience them more deeply. And taste them! 💟💞 TFS!!!!!!

@thegoodscientistsdaughter7236 3 жыл бұрын

These are my favorite videos! Just the two of you talking about the land is so awesome! Thanks for allowing us to join you guys! It’s a true privilege to watch💚

@northwoods3d 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Nick, for recording, editing and posting these wonderful videos. Thank you, Randy, for sharing your knowledge and stories, touched with a bit of humor, they are truly invaluable and I enjoy and cherish them. I would have loved to have been able to play in that environment as a kid - what a fantastic area.

@daledavis3651 3 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing the old ways very special.

@phillyg7661 3 жыл бұрын

Randy Lewis, you inspire my soul. Thank you. Thanks to you I follow another inspirational elder, Navajo Traditional Teachings, I love to learn the truest “religion“. Nick, thank you for all your videos, I love to learn about the geology of this beautiful land. Cheers from Baja BC.

@ethelmarshall1466 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Nick. I enjoyed listening to moses telling his stories of his people. And like you said i would just drive thro there not knowing abiut this place as. To how the indians used it. Honored it. And have great memories. They were truely rich living off thier sacred places. Now i feel connected too.. mankind progress is great. But the natives learned from their ancesters. How to respect the lands. I love you taking us on these adventures. Always love history. Geology exploring our world.. my husband was from Seattle Washinton. Hhe flew meand him to seattle for his 10 year class reunion.. 1975 from Orlando.. i was like a kids first time to disney world. Flying over montains. All i evrr sren was flat land growing up in rual . South Georgia. My eyes were like mismorized the whole two eeeks were were there.. a day going up to mt rainier to paradize lodge in july. With flip flops on.. never walked in snow. This bringsbavkwobferfulmemories of that state.. the mountains kept calling me back. So in1999. I returned but to Portland, Oregon. Stayed 15 years. Mountains kept me hostige. Icould not leave them. While there i vidited Mt Hood, Mt St Helens and many others. Camping. Etc. Thank you for these day trips . Me and my sister have watched all your vidios. From Orlando.. please dont stop. We are in our 70s . We call you our boyfriend. Hugs

@kyleroth1025 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Professor Zentner and Randy Lewis a.k.a. K'ayaxan

@Eric_Hutton.1980 3 жыл бұрын

More with Randy Lewis please.

@whitby910 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you both.

@Yetibiker67 3 жыл бұрын

Prof Nick, please do not stop vlogging. You are a gifted teacher!!! I am a verified Zentnerd!!

@floydt2029 3 жыл бұрын

This is so interesting! Thanks so much for sharing Nick & Randy.

@az3507 3 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite Randy Lewis video yet! So much interesting information! Ali

@tgmccoy1556 3 жыл бұрын

I had a Cherokee/Choctaw grandma. She had a lot of similar wisdom my Pop, too. Things are not what they seem.

@ethelmarshall1466 3 жыл бұрын

You gotta love it.

@tennesseenana4838 3 жыл бұрын

Randy is like the horned toad he spoke of - blessing all of us with his knowledge and wisdom. My deepest respect to him and his people.

@alwedworth 3 жыл бұрын

Thank You So Much!

@Anne5440_ Жыл бұрын

Oh my, I used to drive through that spot as often as I could. It feels so special and magical there. I always have loved that part of the coulee. But I didn't know why it is special. Now thanks to Randy I know just how very special it is. Since I've been sick I can't drive very far. I'll try to get my daughter to take me there next time she's home from college. My husband could drive but he won't stop to enjoy the location. He would just want to drive wild and get to Ephrata, lol. Thank you Randy for this lesson.

@PeterPenguin77 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this special trip to a very special place. I like how it’s non-stop teaching and information about the land and culture. So many rich stories.

@lindsaymalone9371 3 жыл бұрын

Randy is making me hungry with all the food and recipes for cooking. A shrub-steppe landscape feast! So grateful to you Randy for being willing to share wisdom and teachings. They really do foster great respect for the land and open the mind to more ways of seeing. When I get to the top of a tree covered mountain I note the plant community AND see the foods and medicines along with the beauty.

@RichGilpin 7 ай бұрын

Thank you Nick for sharing Randy with us. Thank you Randy for sharing the wonders all around us and for providing the special wisdom that all of us of European descent can use. My Grandmother lived in the scab lands as her father, from Germany, tried unsuccessfully (before the hydro projects) to farm them. We are talking before 1910. By 1910 he had built a house in Kelso Washington where my grandmother went in order to deliver my mother when she was born, in 1910. I have been so fortunate, though not actually much from a use standpoint, to have had a grandmother, and then mother who realized the value of local plants all over Oregon and Washington. In my later life I am trying to reconnect to those plants - it is so true that they elicit wonderful memories when you smell them. Everywhere I have lived and visited in many travels and stays is all sacred indigenous land.

@RichGilpin 7 ай бұрын

Just to add onto this. I will now forever remember the coyote story in this, a good lesson for all of us men who fall in love too easy then want to 'throw it all away' (to use the Bob Dylan lyric).

@freddiemarquez9736 3 жыл бұрын

Randy's sense of humor is the best.. his timing is like a professional coyote.

@johnwinskie7911 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nick! Thanks Randy - Respect!

@adem-Savs 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing, with such wisdom from Randy...

@MrChappy39 2 жыл бұрын

I (European ancestry) get a strange sense of loss and sadness that I've been cheated of a earth view only given to indigenous people. Although, in the same breath, perhaps if I open my ears and soul to the Randy Lewis' of this planet, the sadness will be dispelled. Thanks Randy and Nick.

@jordanoldani7214 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful and profound ❤ thank you for the blessing of this knowledge!

@davidschmale3359 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't want it to end, and then I saw this is just part 3 of 4! I grew up back in the late 50's and 60's beside Horn Rapids on the Yakima. It wasn't a dry highway, but the same sagebrush, and native plants, and hackley Basalt. You and Randy are taking me on such a wonderful nostalgic journey with this series, showing me all the details that I walked right past everyday as a kid, and not knowing anything more than to try to not step on a Skattlerake!

@Anne5440_ Жыл бұрын

I was so thrilled to hear him say snattlerake just exactly the way my dad said it.

@tomrobertson3236 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing his knowledge of the past but his knowledge of modern terminology along with it too

@billw4801 3 жыл бұрын

Special people in a special place.

@kurtschnuit3544 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!!

@sharonhoward4957 3 жыл бұрын

So nice to see Mariposa Lilies! Beautiful area especially with Randi’s spoken history!

@steel1182 3 жыл бұрын

Wow am I spoiled,.. first that awesome walk with you and Liz on July 4 and now randy Lewis . I came inside after 2 hrs of hedge clipping exhausted from the 90 degree heat and as soon as randy started talking…I am refreshed.. thanks so much nick!!

@sidewinder814u 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, for the complete feeling. Yet fearing tomorrow's intermingling with strangers might ruin my present self...though KZfaq has this waiting for me to view again. Peace for now is unbelievably unbeatable!

@jamespmurray4059 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating.

@wildedibles819 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful thanks

@BrokefishN 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you (K'ayaxan)

@tgmccoy1556 3 жыл бұрын

Went on archeological Dig in college, Grande Ronde valley. The site was this same sharp edged basalt.

@jamespeterson2285 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds very good

@trumpetmano 3 жыл бұрын

Man, I would have loved to been out there learning from him...

@christopherray1105 3 жыл бұрын

This type of learning through oral history on location should be commonplace

@johnjunge6989 3 жыл бұрын

Smells trigger many things in memory: grandma's home made bread or cookies, a new car, air after a rain, fresh mowed wheat, and as Randy said " many long lasting memories". And if you lived before electronics and transportation, the open air contained our their memories, for more years than we can imagine. I have studied Indians in the Mississippi river valley. They were many tribes and worked together as a community, and later with the French, and even inter married. But when the British came, the community was destroyed in a few years, and we finished it when we broke the treaties. God Bless America, land of broken promises! God Bless Randy for dispersing his memories!!!

@johnschmitt7957 3 жыл бұрын

Thinking a "Randy Lewis: A to Z" series would be a good idea.

@thathobbitlife 3 жыл бұрын

Love this so much

@lindagates9150 3 жыл бұрын

I have a serpentine work of art, when I asked the artist Oliver Harwood*what do you call it he said it is whatever you see in it. I see different things a dinosaur from one angle ,when I first enter the room I see a first person wearing a green feather in his hair , there had been a void in the stone where he inserted a beautiful piece of green glass now when I look at it I will think of Randy Lewis and his memories that he is sharing with us ,the glass a window into the past . * I am positive that Oliver is his first name not so certain about his last name I was sorry for myself when he moved to B C as I am sure that if he continued to live in New Brunswick we would have bought more than the two pieces that have given me so much pleasure over the years. NB just a short stop on his way around the world . Thank you Nick and Randy for this video I have enjoyed it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖♥️💝♥️🙋🏼‍♀️

@gonagain 3 жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank you!

@lesliepropheter5040 2 жыл бұрын

I always remember how it felt when I was pulled along over the dirt and grass along the sidewalks in a little red wagon The wheels were hard and there was no cushion in the wagon but not a jarringly stiff ride

@lIlIANONYMOUSIlIl 3 жыл бұрын

This is good stuff Nick. I know you had wanted to do this for a long while now. Amazing how many things, right at your feet that they used. I imagine you are having a greater appreciation as am I. We tend to take nature for granted when we are young. I feel lucky to have lived in the PNW when I was young. We went on a lot of adventures in the outdoors as bored kids. Some of my greatest memories.

@stanwashighski3553 3 жыл бұрын

Saddest history of these United States is that we didn't assimilate upon arrival here.

@johnyoung2544 3 жыл бұрын

RESPECT

@101rotarypower 3 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for smellovision

@untillthend2300 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy burning sage

@michaeldowns5270 3 жыл бұрын

Has Randy Lewis ever mentioned desert tortoise in Eastern WA? As a kid in Ephrata, we played in the sage and russian thistle covered hills north of town. One day we came across a tortoise.

@markvanleeuwen6678 2 жыл бұрын

Get well soon randy!

@fbrown2014 3 жыл бұрын

If If Randy has a sister or a niece, please let her tell her ancestors's story.

@tibomoltini2851 3 жыл бұрын

23:13 I agree 100% with that if you don't value the past with stories, it's lost. i've got stories of my gran'mom picking hot rocks from the river to warm her bed at night, and other stories, but she couldn't tell us everything so most of it is lost. If nobody values that for us, it seems lifeless (in term of human activity and collective memory). And dont worry i've got the aircon, i won't go picking rocks at her spot ;-)

@wildedibles819 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed this wild edibles episode Much love xoxox

@ArtDeGuerra 3 жыл бұрын

You guys need to hook up with the youtuber Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't. It would be epic!!!!

@ThePitbulllady1 3 жыл бұрын

AMEN to that suggestion!

@ArtDeGuerra 3 жыл бұрын

@@ThePitbulllady1 how can i link Crime pays but Botany doesn't so nick can see his videos?

@KozmykJ 3 жыл бұрын

@@ArtDeGuerraNick knows. I learned about Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't FROM Nick 😉

@laureneolsen8624 3 жыл бұрын

This was such a special show, Nick. Randy is amazing. Thank you both, so much!, Were those service berries that Randy was eating?

@wildedibles819 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe the areas make a difference because of the rock they are growing on

@andyanderson6440 3 жыл бұрын

He's right . Mother should I build a wall?

@Yaxchilan 3 жыл бұрын

K'ayaxan!? my friend! spirit at heart? what does your name mean? mine is green stones.

@Yaxchilan 3 жыл бұрын

i am Yaxchilan

@JonnyHuman Жыл бұрын

23:27 “You gotta want it like you want life, because it is our life! Our land is our life; that’s our world. And we’re inseparable! To lose parts of it, and to lose that knowledge of it, and to lose that history of it, you’re losing a part of your life. You’re losing a part of the integrity. You lose what it means to be “Indian””

@hertzer2000 3 жыл бұрын

A scientist has to be able to measure a thing. The belief is in the measurement. The measurement provides proof.

@briane173 Жыл бұрын

19:27 The Lorena Bobbitt of First Nations lore....

@dethmaul 3 жыл бұрын

Randy mentioning the disease wiping out the bison reminded me of this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gKuJm5iIpqnVdZ8.html Interesting video about why the new world didn't have disease trouble, but the old world did.

@markmaehler1608 3 жыл бұрын

Randy it's the birds that suffer this magnetic field weakening, whole populations not returning, horn toads get a break, it's the cycles, on ranch rabbits would populate then cayote and hawk would populate rabbit would disappear, then hawk, it would all start back up, cayote turned to the lambs, 97 to 2010, river and bay lands CA