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  Our theme for tomorrow's Red Thread Circle is Wonder Woman,  connecting with our own power.  One of my Sheros is Abigail Scott Duniway - our own 'Oregon Pioneer Suffregette!'  Born in 1834, Abigail's family traveled by wagon train from Illinois to Oregon in 1852, and seventeen-year-old Abigail Scott was assigned the task of keeping a daily journal. She married Ben Duniway the next year, and they settled in the Willamette valley. Her husband was injured in 1962, and Abigail became the breadwinner, taking boarders, teaching school and running a millinery shop.  The family moved to Portland in 1871, and Abigail began a weekly human-rights newspaper, The New Northwest, which she edited and published in Portland for sixteen years (1871-1887) Editor and Publisher Abigail first headed to the polls (closed at the time to women ) at 38, in 1872; after campaigning for Ulysses S  Grant/ Henry Wilson.  On election day, Abigail led Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beat...

 Recently, I used my little Cherokee Syllabary dictionary to record plant names in my garden journal, I needed to look up one of the wild greens, Sochani, and was delighted to find this article !  In winter, I ordered 'Golden glow' (Rudbeckia lanciniata) seed from Everwild, after finding the greens were a favorite food of the Cherokee. Sochan seed packe t In an article on his blog in 2019, edimental proponent Stephen Barstow wrote that Rudbeckia lanciniata "is documented as probably the most important spring vegetable of the Cherokee in the Southern Appalachians in Moerman’s Native American Ethnobotany, which is probably where I first noted its edibility.  "It’s missed in Cornucopia II. The Cherokee ate the tender young leaves and stems cooked alone or with other greens such as poke (Phytolacca americana), Ramps (Allium tricoccum), Rumex spp. (docks) and eggs. They were also fried with fat, were dried for later use and also eaten as a cooked spring salad or as celery ...

 This summer, a small group from our church read local author Randy Woodley's book, Becoming Rooted, a small book of daily reflections from an indigenous perspective.  At the end of our time together, we decided to seek out other books from native authors, and I found A Cherokee Book of Days (Joyce Sequichie Hifler).  Clematis Ville de Lyon   For October 20th, Joyce invites us to watch the season come on with peace, as da na li s da yu hu s gv - a feast for the soul.  'The island in the Mississippi are our gardens, where the Great Spirit caused berries, plums and other fruits to grow in abundance .... Black Hawk Last week, several from our group visited the lovely Chachalu  Museum and Cultural Center at the nearby Grand Ronde reservation, enjoying the exhibits and stories, with Alaskan native, Crystal as our guide.  The Yamhill Kalapooia called their valley Chachalu, place of the burnt timbers, from a wildfire that burned through the Grand Ronde Valley...