text:  still hand processing Indian hemp and milkweed for cordage and then doing weaving for our own communities, for our own use because it was valuable and it was handed down mother to daughter. You know, my great grandmother's generation, there were a lot of tribal weavers and a lot of people made their own clothes. There were tailors and seamstresses. That was so common. My great grandmother was a seamstress and she could do invisible weaving, you know, so she could repair torn fabrics and you couldn't see the difference.