What Na'vi Indigenous Skills are you Learning - other than Languange

[Niri Te]

Theorist,
I tried to look at your profile to see how old you are, but there was nothing to go on there. In 11 days, I turn 62, so it is a safe bet that you, like most on this site are younger than me. that being said, don't sell yourself short, you have time to learn these things, and I am sure that you will.
I have lived my life at a hundred and ten percent, and will continue to do so, for whatever years I have left, it's just the way that I am put together.
Take it one day at a time, you aren't assured of the next heartbeat. Live every moment like it is your last, and you will do more living in your time here than most people would in THREE lifetimes.
Eywa ngahu,
Ia Fa'a manuia le ATTUA ia te oe, (Samoan)
Niri Te

[Marvellous Chester]

Oh this is a cool thread

Currently learning foraging and herbalism as these two go pretty much hand in hand.

Also trying to learn how to make clothes from materials like fur/leather, it's harder than I thought it would be

[Mika]

This is an amazing thread, and glad to see and hear about others skills, and dramings.

Archery is definetly one I think is on a lot of our wish lists, like others righr now its only something I practice ... in my minds eye on Pandora!

But I have started to add learning Na'vi language to my list, which will keep me challenged for a while.

[apache_blanca]

Mika, did you make the bead jewelry you were wearing in Seattle 2011 Meetup???¨O-O

I do some beading but Very simple. However, I always liked story-telling - I didn't see much in Avatar, but maybe in Avatar 2? altho yes there was singing, just when Jake went to sit with the Na'vi at the fire for the first time. It was the Weaver's Song - Hunter of Glade posted the lyrics somewhere on ToS.

And ooh, Dreamhunting is my thing too (I don't need halucinogenic worms for that, a good meditation, or "just a dream" is enough, I guess I am simply talented! *modest* (not))

[Mika]

Originally Posted by apache_blanca

Mika, did you make the bead jewelry you were wearing in Seattle 2011 Meetup???¨O-O

I do some beading but Very simple. However, I always liked story-telling - I didn't see much in Avatar, but maybe in Avatar 2? altho yes there was singing, just when Jake went to sit with the Na'vi at the fire for the first time. It was the Weaver's Song - Hunter of Glade posted the lyrics somewhere on ToS.

And ooh, Dreamhunting is my thing too (I don't need halucinogenic worms for that, a good meditation, or "just a dream" is enough, I guess I am simply talented! *modest* (not))

Hey Apache!

The bead jewelry I wore at the meetup, I didn't make, but they are traditional pieces that I found on my travels, and are the inpirations for my own pieces that I'm working on.

Story-telling is an incredible gift, I hope we will get to hear (see) sone of yours, that would be amazingly wonderful!

I like how you say that 'dream-hunting', like you I experiece that a lot, and so too as a 'natural', withot ever having used stimulants.

*Big HUGS* my tsmuke, thank you for sharing and adding those.

[apache_blanca]

Originally Posted by Mika

Hey Apache!

The bead jewelry I wore at the meetup, I didn't make, but they are traditional pieces that I found on my travels, and are the inpirations for my own pieces that I'm working on.

hiya you know what, I was looking at you - in Seattle Meetup 2011 video (courtesy tsmukan Alan) , your jewellery, your clothes & thinking: "That's another great way of stating that one is "one of the clan". Cosplaying is great & probably the best way but it requires A Lot of sacrifice & effort - several hours of just body-paint & months of preparation (& money, too). I really admire cosplayers but I don't think I am up to That much work. However your Na'vi-blue clothes & bright tribal jewellery seem a different wonderful option to say the same thing: "I am one of the people". I bet the Na'vi would love your beads & would want to touch them, like little kids touching Grace's headband!

Story-telling is an incredible gift, I hope we will get to hear (see) sone of yours, that would be amazingly wonderful!

aw irayo - I do hope for Sharing stories! I see some very colourful & amazing clan members on our ToS forum, I am sure we all have something interesting & entertaining to tell, a short story or a long one, or just a joke - we'll see, what, but I can see us sitting around that campfire, talking singing laughing... yeah! it would be good.

I like how you say that 'dream-hunting', like you I experiece that a lot, and so too as a 'natural', withot ever having used stimulants.

yeah! I can't call it an indigenous "skill" - but rather a practice. It's a great thing, I wish Dreamhunting scene were included in the movie... Ah well maybe in the sequel...

*HUGS* to you!

[Mika]

Doing some researching on Traditional Weaving I came across this website which has some information on 'learning primitive skills' based of Native American's

Eagle Goes Dancing - Eagle Goes Dancing

He makes reference to another web resource Paleo Planet but when i try to access it - it seems defunct. But i did find this one and though i haven 't checked out all his links, he seems to have quite a bit of information

Primitive Skills -

Primitive Skills - About Me

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[Tsutan]

It's very awesome to see others interested in aboriginal/primitive living skills. A great deal can be said for the feeling you get when you go back to the start, knowing what you can create with just your hands as people did for hundreds of years or knowing that you can interact with nature on a level lost to most modern people.

I myself am an avid woodsman, I've been through a couple of different style survival courses, and have even learned a thing or two from some tribes within the areas I have lived. I'm pretty decent with woodland survival and am currently working with more focus on herbalism and being able to better read the signs of the land to help aid in my tracking.

[Human No More]

Yeah, well, there's a road to one side, so that's out, and some woods to the other sides, which is probably a bit better since they're up a slope from it on most. Getting there involves a long walk mostly along main roads or a bus, but where I live, you often see stranger things than someone carrying a bow , and I figured as much about legality but good to hear it from someone with a little related experience.

[Dakar]

I have many thanks to The Cheyenne Tribe who adopted me as one of the people.
I hunt with bow and arrows, I ride horses and also hunt while riding. I can track and read the forest. Plus I make my own bow and arrows as well.

[Niri Te]

Originally Posted by Dakar

I have many thanks to The Cheyenne Tribe who adopted me as one of the people.
I hunt with bow and arrows, I ride horses and also hunt while riding. I can track and read the forest. Plus I make my own bow and arrows as well.

Ma tsmuk Daker,
It warms my heart to see someone who was allowed by a native people to become one OF those people, and both realized, and appreciated the great gift that they were given.
ta Niri Te

[Zrina Ni'awve]

Originally Posted by Dakar

I have many thanks to The Cheyenne Tribe who adopted me as one of the people.
I hunt with bow and arrows, I ride horses and also hunt while riding. I can track and read the forest. Plus I make my own bow and arrows as well.

I revere you. It's amazing, that they accept you like one of them...

[Zrina Ni'awve]

I tryed something of Na'vi things and I find I can do only two things good: archery and flying. I thing I'm not bad in humans archery style, but when I try Na'vi style, all my arrows flys left
And flying? It have one big problem - ikran. So I've ikran replaced by an airplane. It's not same, but beautiful too

[Niri Te]

Originally Posted by Zrina Ni'awve

I tryed something of Na'vi things and I find I can do only two things good: archery and flying. I thing I'm not bad in humans archery style, but when I try Na'vi style, all my arrows flys left
And flying? It have one big problem - ikran. So I've ikran replaced by an airplane. It's not same, but beautiful too

Do you compete in Archery while on Horseback? I have seen Hungarians do that, and it is something to watch, do the Czech's do it too?
Niri Te

[Zrina Ni'awve]

Originally Posted by Niri Te

Do you compete in Archery while on Horseback? I have seen Hungarians do that, and it is something to watch, do the Czech's do it too?
Niri Te

I haven't seen anyone to do this. And I'm not good horse rider (some times I ride, but if I want go faster I've to fall like Jake ), so I would not try it now.
Do any one here doing this? (without Dakar?)