A field guide of 50 plants at a New Brunswick wetland has been compiled by Wolastoqi plant experts.
A field guide of 50 of the many plants in the protected area behind Lincoln Elementary Community School has been compiled by Wolastoqi plant experts Cecelia and Anthony Brooks.
"I get it," she said, "They are plants and they're everywhere, but the knowledge comes from our ancestors." "Our communities are the poorest in the country and yet they continue to take our knowledge without credit or without sharing. And not even asking. They just do it."The red osier dogwood shrub has experienced a bit of a renaissance in use, said Brooks. Its bark is scraped and roasted as an ingredient in sacred pipe smoking blends. An alternative name is red willow because it bends like a willow and baskets can be made from it.
Key differences, she said, are that Indigenous science doesn't claim to be objective and it includes a "layer of spirituality."And some medicine keepers reply that, "If you listen, the plants will talk to you." It's always best to check with an expert, she said, such as someone from the New Brunswick Museum or the UNB herbarium.
It's one of the few plants, she said, that are still being used, despite the separation of Indigenous people from the land through colonization.
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