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Plants have so much to give us, all we have to do is ask : Anishinaabe botanical teachings / Mary Siisip Geniusz ; edited by Wendy Makoons Geniusz ; Illustrations by Annmarie Geniusz.
This book is filled with stories, teachings, culinary and medicinal recipes from Anishinaabe traditions, handed down from past generations.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780816696734
- ISBN: 081669673X
- ISBN: 9780816696765
- ISBN: 0816696764
- Physical Description: xvii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
- Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2015]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-361) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Traditional Anishinaabe teaching about plants -- Indinawemaaganag : all of my relatives -- Conifers -- Three food plants -- Four traditional plants in the Anishinaabeg culture -- Medicinal plants. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| La Conner Regional Library | 581.63 GENIUSZ | 110972 | NON FICTION | Available | - |
Mary Siisip Geniusz (1948–2016) was of Cree and Métis descent and a member of the Bear Clan. She worked as an oshkaabewis (a traditional Anishinaabe apprentice)
with the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman and ethnobotanist from Michigan. She taught ethnobotany, American Indian studies, and American multicultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and Minnesota State University-Moorhead.
Wendy Makoons Geniusz is of Cree and Métis descent. She is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where she teaches Ojibwe language courses.