Pocahontas (1995 film) character flowered into the idea of a grandmotherly spiritual adviser to Pocahontas. Because of Katzenberg's opposition to having Grandmother Willow in the story, Joe Grant assisted fellow veteran story artist Burny Mattinson with coming up tree puns such as "My bark is worse than my bite", "The roots of all problems", and "They're barking up the wrong tree." Mattinson reluctantly added them to his pitch for the next morning, and during the story meeting, he exclaimed, "Everybody loved it! All of a sudden: 'Oh, I want her in!' 'Let's build her part bigger!'" In September 1992, Disney began casting actors
Nakoma Golf Resort and Nakomis. The Nakoma statue is the daughter of the moon and the mother of Hiawatha. Nakomis is the male counterpart to Nakoma. He depicts a native Indian story of Nakomis teaching his son how to shoot an arrow to the Sun God. The Nakoma Resort and Spa development established in 1996 rejuvenated the surrounding communities of Graeagle and Portola putting Plumas County on the map as an undiscovered mountain recreation area. The area offers the Wild and Scenic Feather River corridor and its world-class trout fishing, Lake Davis, Frenchman's Lake, Great Lakes Basin, Hwy 49 gold country, just to