"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it's hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in a trap of overconsumption, which is as destructive to ourselves as it is to those we consume." p. 179.
Wild Leeks
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Wild leek bulbs
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Common Elderberry in Bloom
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Fiddlehead Ferns
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Trillium
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Dutchman's Breeches
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Black cohosh
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Bloodroot
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Jack-in-the-Pulpit
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Mayapple
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Great Blue Heron
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Wild Rice Havesting
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White snakeroot
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American Marten
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Keywords
Anachronism: a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place. (MW)
Animacy (animism): Attribution of conscious life to objects in and phenomena of nature or to inanimate objects (MW)
Attunement: an attuning or act of making harmonious. (Collins)
Autotroph: an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. (OL)
Biophysical realm: The biological and physical considerations or factors. (YA)
Conundrum: an intricate and difficult problem. (MW)
Coureur des bois: an independent entrepreneurial French Canadian trader who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs. Some learned the trades and practices of the indigenous peoples. (W)
Heterotroph: an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter. (W)
Humus: A brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic. (MW)
Lassitude: a condition characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit. (MW)
Metaphysical realm: A reality beyond what are senses may be able to perceive. (YA)
Microhabitat: a small area which differs somehow from the surrounding habitat. (NG)
Monoculture: the cultivation or growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural or forest land (MW)
Potlatch: A ceremonial feast of the American Indians of the northwest coast marked by the host's lavish distribution of gifts or sometimes destruction of property to demonstrate wealth and generosity with the expectation of eventual reciprocation. (MW)
Prop root: a root that serves as a prop or support to the plant. (MW)
Proselytizer: a person who to tries to persuade other people to accept a particular religious or political belief, idea, or way of life. (CAMB)
Reclaiming the Honorable Harvest
Other Resources
Becoming Good Ancestors: How We Balance Nature, Community, and Technology by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199706112Publication Date: 2009
Enough Is Enough: Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781609948061Publication Date: 2012
Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge for the Modern Era: A Natural and Applied Science Perspective by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781351981798Publication Date: 2019
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye View of the World by Call Number: Circulating Books - 1st Floor ; QK46.5.H85 P66 2001ISBN: 0375501290Publication Date: 2001
Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780262312264Publication Date: 2012
Grey OwlCall Number: DVDs - 2nd Floor ; PN1995.9.B55 G74 2001
