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After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder
After the First Full Moon in April A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder Author:Josephine Grant Peters, Beverly Ortiz Josephine Peters, a revered northern California Indian elder and Native healer, shares her vast, lifelong cultural and plant knowledge. She instructs the reader on personal and tribal history, gathering ethics and preparations, then offers a catalogue of the uses and doses of over 160 plants. At a time of the commercialization of traditional eco... more »logical knowledge, Peters presents her rich tradition on her own terms, and according to her spiritual convictions about how her knowledge should be shared. This volume is essential for anyone working in ethnobotany, ethnomedicine, environmental anthropology, Native American studies, and Western and California culture and history.« less