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2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass: Old-Growth Children

"Wealth meant having enough to give away, social status elevated by generosity." p. 280

Old-growth forest in the Opal Creek Wilderness, OR

Nickpdx (talk · contribs), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The green on these maps represents old-growth forest

 Online via the University of Michigan. https://www.awesomestories.com/asset/view/AMERICAN-DEFORESTATION-The-Lorax via 

Yellow Salmonberry

The original uploader was Apv at English Wikipedia., CC BY 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons

Duncan Memorial Big Cedar Tree

© Steven Pavlov / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Senapa Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

Lichen hanging from Cedar trees

Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Western Red Cedar, Canoe Cedar female cones

Walter Siegmund, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Cedar Bark Coat

http://portlandartmuseum.us/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=10232;type=101 Northwest Coast artist, Cedar Bark Coat, ca. 1850, cedar bark, Museum Purchase: Indian Collection Subscription Fund, Rasmussen Collection of Northwest Coast Indian Art, no known copyright restrictions, 48.3.594

Keywords

Alluvial (alluvium)  clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water (MW)

Belies: to present an appearance not in agreement with (MW)

Blowdown: an instance of trees being blown down by the wind (MW)

Butress: the broadened base of a tree trunk or a thickened vertical part of it  (MW)

Commodity: an economic good  (MW)

Conical: resembling a cone especially in shape (MW)

Deference: respect and esteem due a superior or an elder (MW)

Dibble: a small hand implement used to make holes in the ground for plants, seeds, or bulbs, to plant with a dibble (MW)

Emblematic (Emblem): an object or the figure of an object symbolizing and suggesting another object or an idea (MW)

Endemic: characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment (MW)

Epithet: a descriptive or familiar name given instead of or in addition to the one belonging to an individual (MW)

Evocative: provoking a memory or mental association (MW)

Filament: a thin, flexible structure that resembles a hair (MW)

Hardscrabble: producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation (MW)

Initiative: eadiness to engage in daring or difficult activity (MW)

Propogate: to bring forth offspring (MW)

Suffice: to be enough (MW)

Transient: passing especially quickly into and out of existence (MW)

Unstinting: not restricting or holding back : giving or being given freely or generously (MW)

Windthrow: the uprooting and overthrowing of trees by the wind (MW)

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