Great Grandmother, Kaya, a revered Skokomish basket maker, is
teaching Josephine, 15, and her brother Ralph, 10, how to make
baskets twined with the leaves of the cattail plant. Kaya learned
when she was very young, just like the others who lived for
thousands of years in the Southern Coast Salish region of Western
Washington State. Now she passes the knowledge on, showing
Josephine and Ralph how to collect and process the cattails, and
even where to dig for the dying materials. But Kaya has more in
store for them, as they become entwined in the traditional ways of
life.