Plants Have So Much To Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask

Plants Have So Much To Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask

By: Mary Siisip Geniusz

Edited By: Wendy Makoons Geniusz

Illustrations By: Annmarie Geniusz

"This is a thoroughly engaging, holistic, and vibrant book. Every chapter made me hungry for more. Many plant knowledge treatises are thin soup, but this is hearty and nourishing because it has all the elements that Western scientific plant teachings leave out."--Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass

Mary Siisip Geniusz has spent more than thirty years working with, living with, and using Anishinaabe tachings, recipes, and botanical information. In Plants Have So Much To Give Us, All We Have To Do Is Ask, Geniusz makes Anishinaabe botanical information available to Native and non-Native healers and educators and emphasizes the Anishinaabe culture that developed the knowledge and practice. Teaching the way she was taught through stories Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses, meaning, and history.

Mary Siisip Geniusz (1948-2016) was of Cree and Métis descent and worked as an oshkaabewis, a traditionally trained apprentice, of the late Keewaydinoquay. She taught university courses on ethnobotany, American Indian studies, and American multicultural studies.

Wendy Makoons Geniusz is of Cree and Métis descent. She is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire, where she teaches Ojibwe language courses.

Soft Cover