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Ronald Paul: We’d make chairs out of alders, maple, willow and bark, birchbark, cedar. A lot easier to work with when they’re green. And baskets, we’d make chair bottoms and backs. You know black ash is something that you can use it on almost for everything. Everything, I mean everything, hell it’s just like string. Can tie things with it, make baskets, and put the chairs together, and hold everything together and brace it.
