- This is a traditional Hodinoshoni planting stick.
It's almost like a little shovel
and hoe and planting stick all in one.
The design-- one of my friends Clayton,
he was in the Canadian National Museum
and had seen these that were hundreds of years old.
And so that's what this pattern is based off of.
One of my friends has been making blanks on it
and getting them out.
We've probably had, you know, dozens of these
in the past couple of years, have gotten out
and are being used again in our different communities.
Yeah, it's just like a little shovel.
I don't think anybody exactly knows how these tools were used.
I mean, yeah, we know you can put it in the ground
and make a little hole, drop your seed in,
and it's efficient for planting.
But look, it just seems like you would use it for hoeing
and it works pretty good.