Product Work Log

Name_Gabe McMahan Date: 9-12-11

Product: A Guide to Medicinal Herbs of the Cherokee Nation

Date/Time:

9-12-11 (3 hours)

10-13-11 (2 hours)

10-22-11 (4 hours)

Activity: Reading about herb cures

Commentary:

I used the internet and one of three

books I’ve rented to find out some of

the medical mixtures the Cherokees’

used.

Activity: Watching Cherokee

Documentary

Commentary: touched on medicinal

values of the Cherokees numerous

times.

Activity: Searching for herbs in forest

Commentary: herbs are beginning to

die for the winter.

Comment/Suggestions:

Limit searches on the

internet to a specific

root.

Comment/Suggestions:

Re-watch

Comment/Suggestions:

Wait till spring to go

search for herbs

Date/Time:

2-23-12 (6.5 hours)

2-23-12 (2 hours)

3-1-12 (2 hours)

Activity: Junaluska Medicine Trail

and Museum

Commentary: Travelled to

Robbinsville, North Carolina to take

pictures and gain knowledge about

the herbs the Cherokees used in that

particular region.

Activity: Interviewed the editor of

the Graham Star about ways to gain

knowledge of the Cherokee’s

medicinal practice.

Commentary: Gained informational

texts and ways to possibly talk with

tribal elders

Activity: research

Commentary: read James Mooney’s

Book

Comment/Suggestions:

A really knowledgeable

place that could easily

settle my questions

using excellent visual

and vocational methods.

Comment/Suggestions:

Gained “History, Myths,

and Sacred Formulas of

the Cherokees”.

Comments/Suggestions:

Formulas are fantastic

3-13-12 (1 hour)

3-29-12 (2 hours)

4-7-12 (8 hours)

4-9-12 (3 hours)

4-10-12 (1 hour)

Activity: meeting with my facilitator

Commentary: went over book lay out

Activity: meeting with facilitator

Commentary: began book process

Activity: went back to N.C. to look at

blossoming herbs

Commentary: saw medicinal herbs in

nature

Activity: writing book

Commentary: wrote pages of my

book

Activity: meeting with facilitator

Commentary: final steps of book

Comments/Suggestions:

Made a outline for the

book

Comment/Suggestions:

Talked about things we

needed in book

Comment/Suggestions:

Look at pictures of signs

Comment/Suggestions:

keep on working

Comment/Suggestions:

Finishing touches

Date/Time:

4-12-12 (6 hours)

Activity: writing

Commentary: Finished my Guide book

Comment/Suggestions:

Its hard work but

keep on pursuing the

finish.