Rock mound

The rock mound will look something like this, but will be filled in with a variety of native plants that have been used for food, medicine, crafts, tools, etc.... The mound itself will be about 80 feet in diameter and around 6-8 feet high not including the stone. The native plants will be identified with information on their individual uses and when and how to collect certain parts depending on the season and their growing cycle. These plants were vital to the native people that were sustained by what they had to offer. Of course their was an dynamic relationship between the plants, animals, and people that had been created over the centuries. Reconnecting this symbiotic relationship with these plants is vital if we choose to live with our environment and to begin to appreciate the cyclical patterns that have existed between humans and plants in the past. As foreigners to this land, we must learn from the idigenous people like the Clackamas Chinook, whom lived in harmony with the land for centuries before the arrival of Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery.