My Chickasaw grandmother, Ella Vale, was an inventor, a visionary, a very hard worker in service to the People, and an inspirational Chickasaw grandmother in all good ways. Grandma Ella was having me plant Ginseng when I was 8 because she said Ginseng was going to become a big product in the US.
As well, Grandma invented a walk-in bathtub for those older or who had some kind of challenge that did not allow them to enter the top of a bath directly. Today this type of tub now exists. Grandma Ella was a great woman, a great songwriter/poet and a grandmother, par excellence!