Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science

Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and ScienceTap into thousands of years of plant knowledge. The belief that all life forms are interconnected and share the same breathknown in the Rarmuri tribe as iwgarahas resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmn builds on this concept of connection and highlights 80 plants revered by North Americas indigenous peoples. Salmn teaches us the ways plants are used as food

Medicine Wheel Journey to Wellbriety — to become sober and well in a Native Amercian cultural way

after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae (Mother Earth) revealed the natural order of the world

A young Indian mans journey to discover America results in an unsettling understanding of relations between whites and Natives in the twenty-first century

With God's Red Son

ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us

American Indians and the Law provides an overview of the major events

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the seductive energy of the animal world

the old man and the first Midewiwin ceremony

Erdrich applies her rich inventive voice and fierce wit to the deforming effects of harassment and oppression

With connections to traditional homelands being at the heart of Native identity

But when all efforts to win Shawnee's affections go hopelessly awry