Theresa Secord, a great granddaughter of Philomene Saulis Nelson, learned to make baskets from Madeline Shay, with tools handed down from Philomene. She began to weave baskets as an apprentice in 1988 through a program developed by the state folklorist, Kathleen Mundell. Secord and Mundell realized that the tradition was being lost as most weavers