“…a brutal

containing a newborn baby’s umbilical cord

and practical botanical tools

the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota

she learns what it means to be descended from women with souls of iron—women who have protected their families

Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings biography “…a brutalMary 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