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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: by Mary Siisip Geniusz,Annmarie Geniusz,Wendy Makoons Geniusz PDF

By Mary Siisip Geniusz,Annmarie Geniusz,Wendy Makoons Geniusz

ISBN-10: 081669673X

ISBN-13: 9780816696734

ISBN-10: 0816696764

ISBN-13: 9780816696765

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent greater than thirty years operating with, dwelling with, and utilizing the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical details she stocks in Plants Have quite a bit to offer Us, All we need to Do Is Ask. Geniusz received a lot of the data she writes approximately from her years as an oshkaabewis, a historically proficient apprentice, and as pal to the past due Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe drugs lady from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a student, instructor, and practitioner within the box of local ethnobotany. Keewaydinoquay released little in her lifetime, but Geniusz has carried on her legacy by means of making this physique of information obtainable to a broader viewers.

Geniusz teaches the methods she was once taught—through tales. Sharing the normal tales she realized at Keewaydinoquay’s aspect in addition to tales from different American Indian traditions and her personal reviews, Geniusz brings the crops to existence with narratives that specify their makes use of, which means, and historical past. tales resembling “Naanabozho and the Squeaky-Voice Plant” position the vegetation in cultural context and illustrate the idea in vegetation as cognizant beings. overlaying quite a lot of vegetation, from conifers to cattails to medicinal makes use of of yarrow, mullein, and dandelion, she explains how we will paintings with these beings to create nutrition, basic medicinal drugs, and functional botanical instruments.

Plants Have rather a lot to offer Us, All we need to Do Is Ask makes this botanical info invaluable to local and nonnative healers and educators and locations it within the context of the Anishinaabe tradition that constructed the information and perform.

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