Bread From Acorns (1933) 

Yes, I've often thought the same watching old videos. Craftspeople or artists, often musicians, from long ago, who would never have believed their works would be viewed around the world.

And I bet her original name was not no Maggie. She’s a real Native American and I’m sure her native parents did not name her Maggie

@@georgecarlin2656 that would be like us asking what your name is based on a photo. We know your name isn't Xiang because you aren't Asian (maybe you are, I have no clue, just an example) but we can't say if your name is Joseph, Aaron, etc.

@@georgecarlin2656 Nothing English. Do you know any indigenous history or do you genuinely think we all have british/european/spanish/french names magically by ourselves since contact with yall making it easier for 'youpeepl'? Use your brain. Not that you deserve to know my name, but I know you cant pronounce it. So im good. My name is Ix'ako Sera'aketsokawe Nungiaakpak. Im mixed from 2 territories/clans. American school and Canadian school demanded my name be something settler appropriate like Anthony or Gabriel. It's called Erasure and assimilation. We wont be here in another 500 years because of all you. We're forced into a melting pot and forced into mixing. Random ppl can claim our race now. Language is dying. This is why you call her Maggie Recently in America, us speaking our religions and practicing our culture was still illegal. So no, her name isnt friggen Maggie in this silent video. Her name is somethign sacred and im glad it isnt known. None of you deserve to know that. No native owes you anything. This video is out of desperation of her ways dying. Not for you "survivalists" How dare you thank her. Maybe yall just have a hard time swallowing that you're modern culture is apart of our disappearance and erasure.

@@LoneStarAnglingOutdoors I'm actually Asian, and my name is indeed Xiang, I don't mind it, I'm just curious how do you know it because it's unlikely to be just a random guess.

I am glad that i have seen this

I used to think survival, bushcraft and wilderness living required muscle ... Now I know from experience that I barely if ever need any brute muscle hahaha. Just a bit of common sense, knowledge and/or a good teacher go a very very long way. This video is a good example of that.

Good points to bring out. If a person were to use a limestone the excess lime coming from the rock could near a toxic dose of calcium (enough to cause constipation or stomach aches)

Odd. There’s a time team episode with a Saxon era experimental archaeologist who demonstrates cleaning the stone, and every intelligent bushcraft person I know of does the same.

That's the difference between living multiple generations as a way of life and some poser on YT

Heh heh, I bet some natives realized non-linear time better than we assume. She may have seen something in a dream and thought (the "modern" whites won't get it but the ones who come after might be those I saw in that vision, and they sure seem grateful"). What a great smile she has! Oh yea, that comes from generations eating properly. Arthur Haines has a great ancestral diets talk up on YT about this...in any case, given what is going on with our sun, magnetic shield, and political arena I expect this type of practice will be seeing a massive comeback. Peace.

I've had plenty of pine nut I love the taste does the acorn bread taste good is it something you still eat

do you know what those berries are?

@@klondike69none85 No

what is Ma- wok ??

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She actually looked like she wasn't enjoying it.

@@mikegarrison7957 She ,wished she had a box of Little Debbie’s.

Correct you are.

@@mikegarrison7957 👍

@@mybuttitches6450 TELL MY MOM TO COME HOME... I NEEDA SAMMICH

Electricity and internal combustion engines eliminated a huge amount of hand labor that humans used to have to do, as this movie very clearly shows.

@hedneh that's doesn't account for the loss of knowledge. Machine work to replace labor would have been easily assimilated into Native American culture and cuisine. However, the institutional and governmental ploy to genocide and eliminate the entire culture is evident in this video.

Stick around. The way were headed you may get to live like this before you know it.

there are countless || universes !

With the homesteading movement, more people are learning this way again.

Let the devil steal your soul new and old, here I say it, for you shall have read it.

@@Bassmasterwitacaster 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿

Nasta

Yes. And blessed are those young that have the wisdom to learn from their elders!

Look under any vid of a native and there's someone in the comments saying something goofy life this

Well, extremely smart when making acorn bread anyway.

I know this was the mentality back then about her culture being so "backwards". But it's quite useful and smart. I would of never thought of using the ground to absorb the water. I appreciate acorns as a food source.

God loves you. If you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. It's the greatest free gift you could ever possibly receive

Exactly! For example, heating water with a hot stone produces a boil more efficiently than externally applied heat. Not to mention, this is a zero waste, community-building way of producing reliable, nutrient dense food. Brilliant.

It's probably coded with like tree sap and Beeswax to make it waterproof

@dizzy now they just charge their phones and act like men

Almighty Loaf she might not have had a phone, but make no mistake, that sweet little lady did her fair share of skinning animals and carrying her weight. The modern-day man would have a difficult time keeping up with her! Those were the days where everyone had to work hard every day for the things that we take for granted these days

@@steviemichelle7271 modern day men still do that

@@AImighty_Loaf no they want to be men without actually doing any of the things a man does.

We call it survival. They knew it as Life.

@@evolutionangel1 Nicely said

Exactly 💯

See how good life can be when you don't need money?

I wash my blender by putting warm water and dish soap inside the blender and switch it on for a couple of minutes, so easy 😁 don't use hot water as it can damage the blender. I hope you find this tip useful.

exactly, there's no need for washing up liquid with this method, no trips to shops, no need for any extra exercise, no water waste, no waste of energy. I've also heard of acorn coffee. The method is to put the acorns into hot ashes, cover them, then pound them up into powder, I will be trying this one day. I've tried eating the acorns before without preparation, they were very bitter in the middle, but the outer edge tasted good, I imagine they are like chestnuts when roasted.

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@@tomcollins5112 Sure Tom, most of them died young and starving.

Me too. She has a beautiful smile.

I thought the same thing.

A sweet faced woman

Beautiful people ❤️

Indeed.beautiful face..

Typically the brushes were made with soap root. And the watertight baskets or “dippers” were made of very tightly woven fresh redbud bark (the interior lining of the bark).

Lol. How could you know she wasn't a mean bitch?

Awesome vid; I totally enjoyed it!!!!

She is amazing!!

@@spiroclimb2523 Because she never met you.

I know you're right. She is so cute.

Some of the sign captions seemed a bit condescending at times.

@@jonathandoelander6130 yeah. "Primitive".

@@stacey3637 And "Crude."

Acorn bread with squaw berry, "only an Indian would appreciate". I would appreciate that too. Yea, condescending narrative but the method and results speak for themselves. Superior! Thank you for sharing this wisdom.

@@jonathandoelander6130 Only if you're a self-righteous snowflake Leftist.

Maggie looks like my Grandmother, LenaMae! 💖😞💖

ROFL So...get off your computer. Turn off your power...who is stopping you?

It was inspiring.

@@edwardr5084 do humanity a favor and turn off the power to YOUR computer.

@@fireoflovewaterofpeace4939 I'm enjoying seeing humanity burn out.

Deer sure love them. I watch them eat them all day under my oak trees. They love water oak acorns the most.

Primitive by the secular worlds standards not by God's standards.

I wish I had learned more such skills in childhood, the ones I did learn are burned into my synapses in a way that later lessons never were. That includes lessons from parents, lessons passed along by older kids, or lessons learned by accident or trial and error.

I agree The Riches of those baskets! Useful, beautiful and essential tools for life! I would love knowing how to make such baskets, and also, weaving cloth and making clothes- such valuable skills!!

such an unrealistic answer!!!

@@isabelsanchez822 a bit of a rude response but I totally understand where you're coming from and see how it could have come off that way

@@isabelsanchez822 Learning to do things is 'unrealistic'? Go outside, isabel. Being holed up is apparently getting to your head.

Me, too. Those baskets, so fine and elegant and able to hold water (for God's sake) sure were "primitive", eh?

Beads or bread

@@Sailorsecretindistress Beads. But, now I want to see the whole thing in color!

@@karenl6908 must be an app to convert this directly into colour.. i want to see that shaman outfit now (looks abit like Oleana Uutai)

Look up gingle dress

Indeed. We went from the greatest economy this world has ever known, to an economy teetering on the edge in 9 months. Hmm, wonder what changed?

@@russguffee6661 Almost as fast as Venezuela fell

45 won

If only. But I fear we may not be so lucky and continue on with "advancement"

also nice teeth.

I bet she knew back pain every single day. Perfect posture or not, if you're over 30 and work for your survival you're going to feel it.

@@AtlasReburdened Not necessarily

@@AtlasReburdened Perhaps the lady in this video had no inflammation, due to a natural diet and was pain-free.

The key is not that she bends with a straight back, but that as she's bent over she rests her elbow on her knee/thigh--watch at 0:55. That takes the weight off her back, allowing her to keep it straight, & puts the weight onto her thighs which have bigger stronger muscles. That's how she gets relief for the muscles in the lower back. Try it--you'll feel the difference immediately. Haha, as an old lady with back pain, I could see right away what her trick was for being able to hold herself bent over like that, since it's a trick I use myself.

You mean indoctrination system

@@bsaver5942 Amen brother.

Acorns rot if stored. Is there a method for storing them? I thought maybe roasting them but I don't really know

@@pelayo341 I'm not an expert on the subject, but I'd imagine they'd store as well as any other fatty grain such as whole grain rice. I bet the tannic acid helps to preserve them for longer as well. As far as I've read, Native Americans stored them in hollowed out tree stumps. If they were to mold, it can be wiped off. I guarantee that if you ground them into flower, and then dried the powder in a thin layer in the sun it would add to their shelf life, but I can't say how much. I would probably sun dry the whole kernels and grind and boil them when it was time to make bread, the heat from cooking would be sufficient to kill any lingering bacteria or pathogens.

I bet it's the white oak acorns that rot due to them not having tannins as much, some are actually sweet and would not need to be rinsed. These are red oak acorns which the tannins help preserve. It's a trade off, the tannins make a lot of extra work, but can be stored easily until really needed.

@@hungryplant3849 That makes perfect sense, to me. I need to buckle down this fall and gather all of my local, Sierra Nevada Oak Tree’s acorns. I have Valley Live Oak, Canyon Live Oak, California Black And White Oak within a mile of my house. I’d like to test some of these hypotheses!

I'm thinking the same thing.

White oak doesn't have to be distilled as much as red oak, so it does depend of the species. Some indigenous in the Americas (if not all) also leached acorns in a bag left in the water after collecting and than went back for them. You have to get those tannins out

Other than the reason it was made is due to the fact Native American Indians were at the lowest recorded population...they thought they were filming anorher "dodo bird".

Yeah I too noticed that.

@@sinsinnomore5555 what was patronizing about it?

@@Peachy08 Just look at the last sentence "a delicacy only an Indian can appreciate" ... if that's not condescending. The bread looked very delicious to me.

@@misspeach3755 Maybe you are an Indian? Or just looking to be offended?

fr this.

Damn right!!

I don't think they ate much meet either. Mostly plants or maybe only plants.

@@truthministries77 no they ate meat as well. Depending on where they were they would eat deer, buffalo, fish ect.

@@kijilee I don't believe the ancient ones did. They were mainly plant eaters. They were far more intelligent back in the Atlantis days. Before the dark ages we are just coming out of.

@@kijilee meat eating is most likely black magic taught to the earthlings by visitors. Who knows

@@truthministries77 Atlantis is a myth

Isn't it? The finishing sentence "a delicacy only an Indian can appreciate" ... pffft ... to me that looked extremely delicious.

Taking offense on behalf of someone doesn't make a word inaccurate as a descriptor. Native American culture was indeed primitive compared to European culture at the time. That's kind of the whole reason that the latter supplanted the former.

Do you not know what words mean this is the very definition of primitive is not some slur it's a descriptive word meaning doing things the old way

I was shocked by the nonchalant put downs as well, but the net result is a bit of tribal wisdom has been preserved for the ages. And the fact some of us understand the subtle insults means attitudes are shifting finally. All over the country, it's been good to see Natives embracing their identities and reclaiming the old ways.

I found some old documentary films from the Austrian Alps area on RU-vid..an entire series on growing flax, preparing the fibre, etc. These people are farming on steep slopes..the farmhouse porch seemed to jut out into space! Super interesting that someone thought to preserve this culture on film. Also, like dear Maggie here, the farmers were working with what they had, and figuring out some clever analog solutions for their particular environment.

I was just thinking about the same thing.

lol why fear the acorns looks tasty

from the videos I've seen they grind the acorns first, let it sit for 5-7 days to ferment, then leech it several times. Id imagine at least grinding it first is faster to leech because it increases the surface area; crushed ice will melt faster than a solid cube.

Too bad she's no longer here to be able to explain and demonstrate in person.

Grind them up first then run water over them in a nut milk sack for about five minutes.

@@92bagder They do not ferment the acorn. The method here is from the Yosemite/Sierra Miwuk. Yes, pounding the acorn into flour (not grinding) makes it easier and faster to leach out the tannins. Ignore the acorns with caps on at the start of the video, those are staged by the filmmaker -- Maggie is using the Black Oak which is the most preferred because it has low tannins and large meats.

@@hebneh Her family is still very much alive and making acorn in the same way. If you can get to Yosemite, visit the Indian cultural museum for more info.

💯 that's why it popped up in my feed, been watching all kinds of videos bout this stuff lately

Only if women are allowed out of our homes, the way the Republicans like things...

Quercus kelloggii, California black oak. She’s gathering them right in front of Half Dome in Yosemite valley, there’s only two prevalent oaks there, the other is quercus chrysolepis, canyon live oak, which has higher tannins and is not used very commonly for meal.

Red oaks and white oaks....you can eat both. White have more water and take longer to dry.

White oaks have less tannin. Red oaks have more tannins.

@@Sundayhandwound thank you for the correct info. I was wondering what type of oak myself.

@@markberryhill2715 no worries, I grew up in Kingsburg, CA, lots of time well spent up and down the Sierras!

@glyn hodges hmmm good question, I shall think about that

I know, right? You should check out the Townsends channel, they recreate early colonial American recipes and building techniques etc, and one thing they show in detail (2 or 3 part video I believe) is how to make a simple survival food called pemmican (made of tallow, dried meat and berries) that can last for decades if stored properly.

true but you know idiots will chop down the oak trees for firewood

@@blakespower The ones who are still alive?

I have this book too, I think they're the same people.

@@geambro6900 Have you read it? I thought it was very interesting, informative and just fantastic all around!

@@sirfishslayer5100 Yes, extremely interesting and informative , especially since I found in it what I was looking for : an efficient way to use the acorns I had gleaned . Much needed because what i had found hitherto on the internet was neither !

@@geambro6900 I just processed some last night...used a blender and water to essentially "grind" them...then multiple baths of water and a linen cloth to get the tannin out...prop 6-7 wash cycles and we had a big ball of acorn meal.

@@sirfishslayer5100 I use the blender too. I let the meal rest in water for about 7 days, changing the water 2 or 3 times a day. Very good for ridding the acorns of the tannins but not quick ! I'm going to try the multiple baths method in one go to see if it works the same.

turn off the internet and go outside

We need another video on that!

Weaving

@@withgoddess1119 lol! Thanks!

They used the inner lining of fresh redbud bark and would weave it very very tightly. As the material dried out, it would get even tighter making it nearly watertight. A large basket (3-4ft tall, 1-1 1/2ft wide) could retain water for up to two weeks, if left alone and not moved around. The Paiutes of the eastern Sierra would travel often, so they’d use pine pitch to make their water vessels perfectly watertight so they wouldn’t leak while being carried around. But the basket in the video (known as a “dipper” basket) was just the redbud material, no pitch.

Then you have to worry about the poisons evil people put in our foods.