Comments on: Using Indigenous Plants http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:18:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charlotte Kelly http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1442 Charlotte Kelly Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:17:57 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=497#comment-1442 Hi Amy, When I was on a bus trip from Anchorage to Seward last June we passed a woman bent over along the road in the drizzling rain with a bucket picking something. I have been trying to find out ever since what she might have been gathering and searched several sites to find out if she could have been picking sour dock leaves at that time of year, but no luck so far. I did however come across your post and enjoyed reading the many interesting posts on the website. Blessings to all of you who do this work. Charlotte Hi Amy,
When I was on a bus trip from Anchorage to Seward last June we passed a woman bent over along the road in the drizzling rain with a bucket picking something. I have been trying to find out ever since what she might have been gathering and searched several sites to find out if she could have been picking sour dock leaves at that time of year, but no luck so far.
I did however come across your post and enjoyed reading the many interesting posts on the website.
Blessings to all of you who do this work.
Charlotte

]]> By: Charlotte Kelly http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-1441 Charlotte Kelly Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:05:00 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=497#comment-1441 Excellent and very informative post. Excellent and very informative post.

]]> By: Beth Lischeron http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-734 Beth Lischeron Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:37:00 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=497#comment-734 Greetings Amy! Lovely post, it sounds like you had a super time! I am working here in southern Vancouver Island as a herbalist/aromatherapist/distiller/ethnobotany gal, with a number of projects underway many of which tie in with my work with Indigenous peoples internationally - I have a great adventure ahead of me - coming up to the north in October - specifically western NWT, Hay River, Ft.Simpson region - to teach young people about plants & entrepeneurism! Have you published anything that might be helpful? I am quite concerned about being able to find plants (at that time of year too!) that might be useful during gathering workshops with the young people... any ideas or help would be very gratefully accepted! You can learn more about me through my web site, dragonflydreaming.com - I'm quite okay though I promise! Best wishes - Beth Lischeron Greetings Amy!

Lovely post, it sounds like you had a super time! I am working here in southern Vancouver Island as a herbalist/aromatherapist/distiller/ethnobotany gal, with a number of projects underway many of which tie in with my work with Indigenous peoples internationally – I have a great adventure ahead of me – coming up to the north in October – specifically western NWT, Hay River, Ft.Simpson region – to teach young people about plants & entrepeneurism!

Have you published anything that might be helpful? I am quite concerned about being able to find plants (at that time of year too!) that might be useful during gathering workshops with the young people… any ideas or help would be very gratefully accepted!

You can learn more about me through my web site, dragonflydreaming.com – I’m quite okay though I promise!

Best wishes – Beth Lischeron

]]> By: Ken Tape http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Ken Tape Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:08:43 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=497#comment-374 That looks fun and interesting. That looks fun and interesting.

]]> By: Tina Hicks http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/using-indigenous-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-303 Tina Hicks Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:17:57 +0000 http://icestories.exploratorium.edu/dispatches/?p=497#comment-303 Hi Amy, I noticed the entry you posted of how one of the elders showed you her purse made of a specific plant that was constructed from a common seaside grass, or tapernaq in Yup’ik (Elymus arenarius) and am very curious as to what were some other uses of indigenous plants for provisions such as medicine and religious ceremonies found? Hi Amy,
I noticed the entry you posted of how one of the elders showed you her purse made of a specific plant that was constructed from a common seaside grass, or tapernaq in Yup’ik (Elymus arenarius) and am very curious as to what were some other uses of indigenous plants for provisions such as medicine and religious ceremonies found?

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