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Chief Johnstar is sitting on an old foundation up in the hills behind his house. We gave Chief Johnstar some money for Jonathan to attend school, so he asked if we'd like to go on a walk to see the foundations of the homes that his ancestors used to live in before they moved closer to the sea. The family used it as a food-gathering expedition and kept asking Nina if she thought she could walk up the steep hills okay. As it turned out they were much slower than Nina.