ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Shamrock, Castanea Sativa, Puffball
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A meditation on remembering what it means to be human: indigenous knowledge of sky and land. By - mko mose (bear walker) andrew judge (english name) Cahokia a city with 200k people living there: maize from s. america, obsidian from british columbia, all types of merchants found there, then global temperature dropped. Trade routes throughout the forests and river ways. Indigenous people, however, thrived with complex social and trade networks that spanned the continent. Algonkian (36 dialects), iroquois (9 types: these forests were destroyed (that take all the carbon out of the atmosphere) Moon cycle 13 moon cycles in total that takes 18 years to complete in total. Plants known to be cultivated by indigenous people of the region of sw ontario: maple/birch syrup, may apple shamrock cat tail, puff ball, apples, potato squash sunflower, wild carrot, wild grape, wild plum, pumpkin corn. Through offerings we acknowledge our place as the lowest form of consciousness on the earth.
