Happy #internationalwomensday! For today I thought it would be important to illustrate the importance of native women as well as Salish women in traditional plant teachings. (left Mary Ann Pierre Combs Salish elder, featured in the illustrated book The Gift of the Bitterroot which highlights the story of how the Bitterroot came to the Salish people) As a Salish woman, I understand my role as a keeper of traditional knowledge, specifically of plants. But my work builds on th