and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust

and practical botanical tools

even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices

Apache storytelling

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 and violence at the handsMary 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