The author's ethnographer-in-training experience with González's Four Seasons of Ethnography framework in an advanced field research methods course run in a little Rarámuri village in the Mexican Copper Canyon, is related. Three core components appeared as the narrative's focal concern: the Four Seasons framework's nature-based logic, the strains between aboriginal education practices and modernizing impact amid the Rarámuri, and the difficulty of doing indigenously based inquiry in a community not one's own. Learnings point out the singular oeuvre rendered by the “Four Seasons” framework and its capability of remodeling knowledge production on the “other” within and beyond the academy.