The usual hunting around to find tribal terms and attempting to understand their relationships with one another, if only superficially, and how we (oh we know who “WE” are) botch our attempts to make sense of them in return.

Actually had the temerity to ask a Makah elder (= nobody kills you before you get gray hair) “What’s with all the Lummi jokes??”

Did you know that absolutely EVERYBODY thinks the guy next door is feckless?

(At least I don’t go filming the chief’s grave without permission!  Geeze, DO some research!  Or meet some people.)