Day Thirteen:

We met up with Jennifer De'rose whom is the Culture Resource Manager, she goes every October through April to check the lake by Heyburn State Park, she explained to us how there use to tons of villages underneath the lake like Hnch'emtsn (Inner Mouth), Hnscharp (Upstream), Quaw'li't (Dark Pine), Ni'st'ed'we'st (Where a Stone Lies Down), Schetkwe' (On the Water), Nr'washalas (Dwelling On the Spur), Ch'mi'wes (Waist), Shsht'ut (Little Rock), De'ttelpus (A Large Clumb of Cottonwood), and Hnch'mqinkwe (Surface on the Head of the Water) all of them filled with life who knows what is left of the tribal members who lived in the villeges listed above. In 1858 the road was built, in 1906 they started to build the Damn, and in the 1990's logging became popular. in 1908 when Heyburn became a state park the tribe sued individuals who lived near the park because thy wanted their space, so the court gave the tribe 38,000 miles only to create a  park for public use. in the 1960-80's people started building on the park and the tribe was not happy for that so they sued again and of course they won and the buildings were torn down and the park continued on living.

OPERATION GIVE A DAM! ABOUT THE BEAVERS. We got suited up and headed down see the beaver projects. I was told we were going to build a beaver dam and I got excited, they told us to think like a beaver so I did, when we started working on our dam we used straw, mud, and sticks and rocks. We used teamwork to get it done, some got cuts and others had mud on their faces but at the end of the day it was worth it because we helped the environment and we all learned to walk in a beavers shoes if they wore any. *drum set*