Join the Oklahoma Native American Basketweavers association.
Be sure you plant non invasive plants for weaving and dyes. Check for lists of weeds gone wild.
Common Reed, not Bamboo! And I thought the tall growing grass in the Oklahoma and Texas areas was a bamboo. It looks like bamboo and splits and peels like bamboo for weaving but it is a Common Reed. Photos of Giant Cane and Common Reed are on the link for the Noble Foundation.
Weaving with river cane! Giant Cane is in many Oklahoma counties and of course, to the south and east. The SE Indian Basket Weaving group will journey from Central and Western Oklahoma to harvest and process the cane for basket weaving.
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