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.

Camas Woman

The Marysville Pictograph Project is in its beginning stages, but the vision is real and alive. Thanks to the vision and funding of the Confluence Project as well as RACC, I will be working with three 4th and 5th grade classes at Marysville Elementary where we will be studying and creating pictograph designs that will become etched and painted onto stone upon an earth mound to be built in the school playground. This project is in conjunction with the Marysville School Playground Park Plan that will be implemented over the course of this summer and into next summer. Marysville Elementary is also a Village Building Convergence site which occurs in May from the 19th-28th that the City Repair Project has manifested as a way of bringing communities together to create sacred places and centers that emphasize community democracy, natural building, and sustainable living. The Foster Powell Neighborhood Association is also a vital means of support for the Marysville Elementary community in which we hope to attract fellow visionaries whom want to participate in making this vision a reality!!!!!!