today the 22

I had a banana and reorganized Ms. Morse's van because it was too messy with the boys in there. We are traveling today to Coeur d' Alene. I don't know for what  but I hope to have a really good time.
 today I met Angelita, Ruben, Jacob, Angelique, Gina, Laura, and Bobby (girl). These students work with the CDA Fisheries. CDA is the Coeur d' Alene tribe. We are camping at Chatcolet Lake. I've learned quite a bit about the CDA tribe and there past history, to me it was sad. They even showed a couple power point presentation of there tribe, the negative history. Like the leads and silvers going into the lake and making it dangerous for the habitat there. there has been a lot of water sheds there. it kills me to here about this kind of stuff contaminating the water and our traditional foods. When the settlers came over to America with their diseases and discovered silver and gold at the mouth of the CDA river which was on the CDA reservation. The settlers decided to try and take that piece of land and fought for it and got it, and mining  around on the creeks and this river contaminated a lot of there land.There was this act called the Dawes act, gave members pieces of land to break up tribe, encourage self farming. They removed families from the lake and forced them to move on these land so that they could build a park that is there today, and was supposed to pay the tribe but they didn't.
 I earned a lot of these different settlers, that come to America only to make money.
 Here in CDA there is only two fluent speakers of their language. The tribe is working on the contaminated sediment now because it has went to Chatcolet lake.
I  actually got to learn a few words which was cool.
We went to a gathering at the longhouse here, it was cool cause Alyssa, Chrissy and me went out on the floor and joined in on the Swan dance. Had good foods so it was a great dinner. After that we got lost trying to find Chatcolet campgrounds.