> [ When you go downriver in the fall, you see racks of salmon, like red
> [ jewels, split down the center and hanging in smoke to cure for the
> [ winter.  Against a turquoise sky with summer green turning into
> [ the bittersweet red, they make a memorable picture.
>
> [ I don't know if I can explain satisfactorily, but in the Native cultures
> [ here,  food and its availability and means  and methods of gathering
> [ are very important in a sense I can only describe as spiritual.


The Spiritual aspects of food are of great interest to me and many others on this list.  I hope you will share
more of these people's views with the list.  I often wonder how they would respond to "NeanderThin".  Hunting
has brought me much closer to nature even though I seldom leave the city limits to fly my hawk.  Your narative
has touched off a longing to return further.

Ray Audette
Author "NeanderThin"