Resources
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*Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians by Alice Micco Snow and Susan Enns Stans
Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Mayan Healer by Rosita Arvigo, Nadine Epstein, Marilyn Yaquinto
Plants, People, & Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany by Paul Alan Cox, Michael Jeffrey Balick
The Revolutionary Genius of Plants by Stefano Mancuso
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications by Christian Rätsch
A Field Guide to Medicinal and Useful Plants of the Upper Amazon by J.L. Castner, S.L. Timme and J.A. Duke
Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida, Third Edition by Richard P. Wunderlin and Bruce F. Hansen
The Amazon: What Everyone Needs to Know by Mark J. Plotkin
Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification by Thomas J. Elpel
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Movies
Embrace of the Serpent (2015) by Ciro Guerra
Fantastic Fungi (2019)
TV Shows
How to Change Your Mind (2022)
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Native Land Digital: https://native-land.ca/
Plant Atlas: https://florida.plantatlas.usf.edu
Native American Ethnobotany Database: http://naeb.brit.org/
The Healing Power of Rainforest Medicinal Plants: https://rain-tree.com/plants.htm
A Modern Herbal (European Herbalism): https://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/comindxp.html
Prelude Medicinal Plant Database (plant medicines in Africa): https://www.africamuseum.be/research/collections_libraries/biology/prelude
Chinese Herbal Medicine Database: https://www.meandqi.com/herb-database
IMPPAT (Indian Medicinal Plants, Phytochemistry, and Therapeutics): https://cb.imsc.res.in/imppat/
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Societies
Society of Ethnobiology: https://ethnobiology.org
The Society for Economic Botany: https://www.econbot.org
Publications/Articles
The Globalization of Ayahuasca Shamanism and the Erasure of Indigenous Shamanism: https://eds-p-ebscohost-com.eckerd.idm.oclc.org/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=492d5e1f-d962-4959-97cc-8c180e919811%40redis
How Traditional Knowledge Opens Nature’s Medicine Cabinet: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/peruvian-health-care/
The Double Life of Coca: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/coca-cocaine-legality/
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So You Want To Acknowledge The Land: https://www.hcn.org/issues/53.5/indigenous-affairs-perspective-so-you-want-to-acknowledge-the-land
The Danger of Social and Political Symbolism in the Advancement of Indigenous Rights: https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/the-danger-of-social-and-political-symbolism-in-the-advancement-of-indigenous-rights?fbclid=IwAR26imkTE-VQ78v7ynVTVOhOu5hEnrVpaumgKnws9ltNGjEKE52-My_pM1Y
Panelists address the complexities of land acknowledgements: https://bowdoinorient.com/2019/11/15/panelists-address-the-complexities-of-land-acknowledgements/
Website: https://firstlightlearningjourney.net/land-acknowledgements/