These are our people now; their relatives may live next door to you. The woodland tribes who reside in Ottawa County: the Eastern Shawnee, the Shawnee, the Ottawa, the Peoria, the Miami, the Seneca, the Wyandotte.
The little woman who was my down-the-alley neighbor turned 100 this year. After she sold her home she moved into Neosho Ridge housing. Her daughter gave me Flossie’s address. I really didn’t need it. I could have walked the neighborhood and known her place. It was the one with Egyptian Walking Onions Allium Cepa Viviparum in pots out front. These “green onions” go to seed, form small onion clusters and when too heavy for the stalk, they fall over and walk all over your gard
