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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStunning Photos Of Contemporary Nomads Who Live As Hunter-Gatherers
http://www.businessinsider.com/adrain-chessers-photos-of-hunter-gatherer-americans-2014-5?op=1In 2007, photographer Adrain Chesser went to a traditional Native American ceremony called the Naraya when he was having a tough time in the wake of his mother's death.
While there, Chesser became acquainted with Finisia Medrano and J.P. Hartsong, who both lived as hunter-gatherers in the Great Basin, a part of the United States encompassing parts of Nevada, Utah, Oregon, and California.
When I heard they were living this wild and free existence, my head exploded, Chesser told me.
Chesser moved to Seattle so he could regularly visit the duo, who had begun to gather a group of people who were also committed to living a free existence in the wild. Before long, Chesser had spent six years following and documenting them and similar groups. Chesser says the experience changed his life.
J.P. Hartsong, Finisia Madrano, and their group live nomadically and travel according to the seasons.
The group, which calls itself Coyote Camp, travels along a centuries-old Native American route known as The Hoop (for its circular nature) that passes through Idaho, Nevada, California, and Oregon.
Coyote Camp travels in accordance with the harvest times for edible plants indigenous to the areas. They harvest roots such as breadroot, camas root, and bitterroot in the spring and summer; berries in the late summer; and acorns in autumn.
Coyote Camp is led by Finisia Medrano (pictured), a transgender woman, who was taught by elders of the Shoshone Tribe in the Great Basin how to live in harmony with the land.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)...as long as they didn't pay for them with "money."
Found objects can be "gathered" as easily as grubworms and blueberries.
NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)They too can be "gathered" just like blueberries ?
I think the whole thing is pretty cool, but this is a financed "hunter / gatherer" expedition. I'll bet there are first-aid kits, GPS and at least one sat phone .
Doesn't mean it's not exciting and cool, but it is.....
dhill926
(16,380 posts)alfredo
(60,078 posts)Victor_c3
(3,557 posts)I could completely understand how the simplicity of living off the land without dealing with all of the modern-day nonsense could be alluring. However, it's not for me. I've spent plenty of time living in the elements to know how good I have it with heat and airconditioning and the convenience of clean water in my house.
hunter
(38,341 posts)I don't like to buy anything new, not if I can make, repair, or repurpose things.
My car has a salvage title, my computers, cell phones, and much of my clothing is intercepted from the waste stream.
I'm not adverse to new technology. Some new technologies really are much better and more elegant than technologies past.
My next desktop computer will probably be a Raspberry Pi, just as soon as I come across a repairable HDMI television.
I think PEX water pipes are superior to copper in every way.
We switched over to compact fluorescents many years ago. As those fail I replace them with LEDs.
Overall, I am not a fan of modern high energy consumer society.