Native American Herbal, Plant Knowledge

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Contributers to Volume I, Number IV include:

Katsi Cook, O. Seumptewa, Victoria Manyarrows, Cate Gilles, Richard Bancroft

(photographer), Mark Dowie, Debra Lynn White Plume, Sarah Lons, Kay Miller, Dr.

Melanie McCoy, Mililani Trask, Nora Naranjo-Morse, Buffy St. Marie, Allison Weiss,

Ruth White, and Erika Zavaleta.

"When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we

know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground.

We never forget them."

-Oren Lyons, Onondaga Nation

CREDITS: Michelle Lord typed the above article and other info from Mohawk

plantswoman Katsi Cook from issue IV (1992) of Indigenous Women's Network

magazine. Subscribe or get single issues on-web at: this distributor. Michelle

circulated Katsi's 1993 article on ind-know mailing list, a listserv whose participants

from many tribes and indigenous nations are interested in traditional ways of

agriculture, ethnobotany, remedies, foods, and especially environmental-ecological

issues on native lands. It's been retrieved from the ind-know archive. I illustrated it with

a photo of Katsi by Millie Knapp, ad will cross-link it to more info about each of the

plants Katsi mentions here.

Native Foods -- Katsi Cook on Women's Uses of Berries

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