Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All W..., Mary Siisip Geniusz
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All W..., Mary Siisip Geniusz
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Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask
Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings

Author: Mary Siisip Geniusz, Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Narrator: Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Unabridged: 10 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/23/2023

Synopsis

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, and as friend to the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from the Leelanau Peninsula in Michigan and a scholar, teacher, and practitioner in the field of native ethnobotany. Keewaydinoquay published little in her lifetime, yet Geniusz has carried on her legacy by making this body of knowledge accessible to a broader audience.

Geniusz teaches the ways she was taught—through stories. Sharing the traditional stories she learned at Keewaydinoquay's side as well as stories from other American Indian traditions and her own experiences, Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history. Covering a wide range of plants, from conifers to cattails to medicinal uses of yarrow, mullein, and dandelion, she explains how we can work with those beings to create food, simple medicines, and practical botanical tools.

About Mary Siisip Geniusz

Mary Siisip Geniusz (1948-2016) was of Cree and Metis 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 Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and Minnesota State University-Moorhead.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ruby on September 03, 2017

Best book about plants I've read, even including identification guides. Don't settle for something that just gives you a name and uses; this book has stories about plants and cares about them. It also includes some good moral values and you will probably find a lot of your beliefs about plants de-co......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on June 25, 2017

I loved this book. I read Mary Siisip Geniusz's "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings" cover-to-cover in just a couple days then immediately re-read it. I expect it to be a reference that I keep on my bedside table or in my backpack for years to c......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on January 23, 2022

I like books that resist classification, and this is certainly one of them. It is a work on botany, but also an ethnography, history and memoir. It features a wonderful fictional dimension as well. To speak about plants as family and friends, to speak in a language in which “gender” does not refer t......more

Goodreads review by Shuli on July 10, 2021

This has become one of my favorite plant books! My favorite plant books are the ones that balance discussion of scientific research and chemical constituents with ethnobotanical and medicinal uses, topped off with a healthy dose of mythology and folklore. This is definitely a book that delivers on t......more

Goodreads review by Monica on March 05, 2021

This is another slower read for me, but well worth it as it is wonderful to get into the tales behind indigenous plant medicines. If you liked Braiding Sweetgrass, you'd appreciate this one, too.......more

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