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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

Name: Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
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Contributors:

Mary Siisip Geniusz, Wendy Makoons Geniusz (Editor), Annmarie Geniusz (Illustrator)

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science, Nature, Science

Book Subcategory:

Ethnic Studies, Plants, Life Sciences

Book Topic:

American, Botany

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Release Date:

2015-06-22

ISBN 13:

9780816696765

Weight:

1.47 lbs

Size:

10.00 x 7.06 x 1.06 inches

Pages:

344

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Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using the Anishinaabe teachings, recipes, and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask. Geniusz gained much of the knowledge she writes about from her years as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar, teacher, and practitioner in the field of native ethnobotany. Keewaydinoquay published little in her lifetime, yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience.

Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught--through stories. Sharing the traditional stories she learned at Keewaydinoquay's side as well as stories from other American Indian traditions and her own experiences, Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history. Stories such as "Naanabozho and the Squeaky-Voice Plant" place the plants in cultural context and illustrate the belief in plants as cognizant beings. Covering a wide range of plants, from conifers to cattails to medicinal uses of yarrow, mullein, and dandelion, she explains how we can work with those beings to create food, simple medicines, and practical botanical tools.

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask makes this botanical information useful to native and nonnative healers and educators and places it in the context of the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice.

About the Author

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.

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