Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
By (Author) Mary Siisip Geniusz
Edited by Wendy Makoons Geniusz
Illustrated by Annmarie Geniusz
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
23rd June 2015
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Applied ecology
333.953
Physical Properties
Paperback
344
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 38mm
Description
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,
Author Bio
Mary Siisip Geniusz (19482016) was of Cree and Mtis 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 WisconsinMilwaukee, University of WisconsinEau Claire, and Minnesota State University-Moorhead.
Wendy Makoons Geniusz is of Cree and Mtis descent. She is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at the University of WisconsinEau Claire, where she teaches Ojibwe language courses.
