“My grandmother insisted that rocks had names and spirit. She passed on
to me her belief that the land is imbued with spirit and unseen hosts. She
heard the language of the earth.”
Elizabeth Woody, Wasco/Wyam/Tygh/Tenino/Dine
Many Nations Many Voices
museum exhibit
Circle of Tribal Advisors of the Lewis & Clark
Bicentennial
Native languages being spoken: Mandan, Lemhi
Shoshone, Chinook Jargon
Sunrise on Columbia River, near Maryhill, Wa. Washington State
Historical Society, Tacoma. 1943.42.33536
Inset: Tsagiglalal, the guardian of Nihhluidih–Wishram
(“She Who Watches”) pictograph, nearby. Photograph,
c1910. Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis's “The
North American Indian,” 2003 (partial).