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Author
Publisher
Synergetic Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Reclaiming the Commons: In Defense of Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge. Corporate war on nature and people through patents and corporate Intellectual Property Rights has unleashed an epidemic of biopiracy resulting in important legal battles fighting efforts to patent the rights to many...
Author
Publisher
Timber Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath-- known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara-- has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Salmón, an ethnobotanist, builds on this concept of connection and highlights plants revered by North America's indigenous peoples. He teaches us the ways plants are used as food and medicine, the details of their identification...
Author
Publisher
Dover
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
Description
A renowned ethnologist with the Smithsonian Institution offers a fascinating wealth of material on nearly 200 plants that were used by the Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin. The volume provides an emphasis on wild plants and their lesser-known uses. 33 plates.
10) Earth medicine, earth food: plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American indians
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
12) Earth medicine--earth foods: plant remedies, drugs, and natural foods of the North American Indians
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English