Sources

http://cwis.org/GML/cowlitz/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowlitz_language

http://www.flickr.com/

http://www.bronsonbattlecreek.com/services/birthcenter/nativeambabynames.shtml

http://www.cowlitz.org/

Journal Entry

                                                                                                     April 12th, 1854                               Dear Journal,
                                     Up here in the Upper Cowlitz is like Paradise. It is warm this time of year. Pretty soon I'm going with my family to pick berries from the top of the mountain. It is a long climb but I think I can do it. Earlier today me and my family harvested wapatoe. That's a type of Indian potato. We also harvested camas bulbs. Well I got to go were just about to leave to pick some berries.                                                                                       
                                                                                               From,
                                                                                               Dichali                                            
                                                                                              

                                                                                                     April 12th, 1854
                  Dear Journal ,
                                       Sorry I could ed write for so long, it has been so busy. Also my father told me what my name means. Dichali means speaks a lot. I was kind of offended, but I kind of talk a lot. Also picking berries from the  mountains was pretty fun. The view was amazing! My mom let us stay up in the mountain for a little stake out. It was fun.  I wish it lasted.    
                                                   
                                                                                                          From,
                                                                                                          Dicali 

                                                                                                      
                                                                                                    September 24, 1854    
    
                  Dear Journal,
                                      It is getting colder here now. All the fun has ended. Once I had to fish in a frozen stream next to our house. Well I better get cofrtible cause I'm problem going to do this a lot more. Right now we are in our cozy long house. My mom is is cooking the fish now. Our house is super long! Many families plus mine are in here.

                                                                                                         From,
                                                                                                         Dicali                                                                                                                                                                                 

How Plants Got Roots

                           There were many animals that lived in Pacific Northwest region . Many of them were used by Native American tribes. Some were not killed and would roam freely in the forest. Small birds, small rabbits etc, would get to do these things, but eventually they would get killed by an animal bigger then them except for the little opossums.                                                  

The opossums can pretend that they are dead so that they are not harmed by any animals, except the ones that like to eat the dead animals that they find. Besides that the opossums thought that they were one of the best animals in the forest. One day the little opossum wanted to have have proof of his and others leadership.                                                                                                                                                                                                          The opossum would prove hisleader ship by taking some of the Indian's crops. The other opossums liked the idea so they joined in. So the opossums would  follow the little opossum to the Indian's crops. When they came cross an Indian they would play dead so the Indians would not harm them. Unfortuantely many opossums were caught and taken away.                                                                                                                                                                                                         All that was left was the little opossume. When he got to the crops he could not pull them out from the ground. So he dug down to the end of the crop. He tuged and tuged so hard tha the end of the plant became little strips that were connected to the crop. The little opossume spent his days trying to get the crops from the Indians and making those little strips of the crop spring out and that's why there are roots on your plants.