BY KAREN BOSSICK

Learn about the Shoshone-Bannock Tribe’s relationship with camas in a presentation Wednesday at The Community Library in Ketchum.

Bailey J. Dann, a member of the Shoshone-Bannock tribe, and Sidney U. Fellows, who claims Shoshone-Bannock and Chippewa-Cree heritage, will explore the cultural and ecological relationship between the Tribes and what they call pasigo at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, at The Library.

For thousands of years the Shoshone-Bannock people not only relied on camas but cared for the Camas Prairie near Fairfield through harvesting practices, burning, seasonal movements and kinship-based management.

Dann and Fellows will show how they are again starting to restore the Camas Prairie, or what they call “Yampadai.” The prairie boasts a sea of blue blooms in good water years.

Dann graduated from Grinnell College in 2017 with a double major in anthropology and studio art. She has taught the Shoshoni language and fifth grade at a Shoshone language immersion school in Fort Hall and now is the Research and Education Specialist at her Tribes’ Language and Cultural Preservation Department.

She enjoys weaving willows, beading, oil painting and harvesting foods and medicines in her free time.

Fellows focuses on tribal food access initiatives with an emphasis on culturally relevant foods grown in landscapes free of synthetic chemicals.

To reserve a seat, go to https://thecommunitylibrary.libcal.com/event/16487977. The presentation will be livestreamed at https://vimeo.com/event/5839456, and the recording will be available to watch later on The Community Library’s Event Archive.