Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science - Enrique Salmon

Iwígara: American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science - Enrique SalmonIwigara, when translated, means the kinship of plants and people. And that is exactly what Enrique Salmon explores in this important book. Iwigara shares culturally specific information about 80 plants, addressing their historical and modern day uses as medicine, food, spices, and more. Iwigara includes plants entries derived from many different American Indian tribes and seven geographic regions across the United States. Each plant entry includes the

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Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific

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