so the karuk people were fix-the-world people. today, we're gonna go down and we're gonna fish in ishi pishi falls. it's very... it's very romantic in some people's eyes, very frustrating and others'. i'm both of those. i love it, that's my way of life, but the health of the river runs parallel with the health of the people. we need to put to action, the physical actions on the landscape. we've got to start cleaning the sacred trails. we've got to start igniting and cleaning the forest once again. everything we do in our world the salmon benefits from. (soft orchestral music) - so in our tribal ceremony is to fix the world. it's not just to fixed this creek or fix our family or fix our river. we want to fix the whole world, because if things are wrong here, they're wrong on the other side of the world too. that's just the way the world works on the balance. so in our tribe, we knew that in fix the world ceremony, pic-ya-wish, even a small group of people with great energy, great focus and pure thought can actually trigger the worl

ciba karuk tribe parks, national parks. (clapping) - following the smoke started out, it started with the group basket weavers. and they joined together and were having issues with getting better quality materials. so following the smoke came from following the smoke by where it was burnt. so if you went following the areas of the burn, you were following the smoke, and then we were able to use those materials from there, 'cause the harvesting from those particular materials is a lot stronger for us. grows stronger, grows straighter. and we use 'em for different like baby baskets for the hazel sticks, so it has to be something strong that we're gonna keep our baby in (chattering) - [woman] shorter sticks and your longer sticks, and you'll go through this process that i'm doing right now which is just peeling it back, because what you want to do is you want to match those peeled back ends together. so if you look closely at this basket you'll see that, down the center, there's actually two sticks there, and they're just kind