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Lillian McGregor [footprints]

Author

By Dianne Meili

Volume

30

Issue

4

Year

2012

A life devoted to healing and higher learning

Morning sun highlights the clustered flower-heads and feathery leaves of the wild yarrow seven-year-old Lillian selects from hundreds of other plants hanging in her grandmother’s back porch. The little girl bursts with pride realizing Miigwas (Little Feather) trusts her to identify the herb on her own, and to help process it into a tonic for stomach disorders.