Journal 5 by Derick

I decided to read the profile of Percy Brigham and from his profile I wanted to do some research. In the reading Isay talked about how Indians have been fishing off of the Columbia river for at least 5,00 years and I didn't believe it. According to this article (http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/native-american-cultures)  Indians have been in America for over 12,000 years. The article also went on to say that an estimated 10 million Indians lived in the Americas before Christopher Columbus discovered the land. I was shocked to have read this, I had no idea. Native American culture is something we do not learn enough about especially because of our horrible past with them.

My favorite writing came from Lydia Emery's profile. Her passage was "I have met people who think that if you could make a lot more money, you should. Like one of my colleagues, a woman doctor up in the valley up in the valley. I didn't know her, but one of my nurse friends told me that she was very with me because I didn't charge more, that I was projecting the wrong image, that a woman doctor should make just as much as a man doctor-which I don't disagree with for one minute. But I was very upset that, because to me, medicine should be a measure of what you're doing, not how much money you're making." I liked this writing a lot because I think this paragraph describes why Lydia did what she did with medicine and never raised her prices. I think this shows how great of a woman she is and to me it is remarkable.

I found a definition in Matt Kennedy's profile. The word is proprietress, which the definition is a woman proprietor. Which a proprietor is just a fancy name for a property owner. I have heard of a proprietor a lot but not a proprietress so I was eager to find out the meaning behind it.