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Sacred Plants: Native American Herbal Medicine
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 Nearly
all cultures on Earth have integrated plant medicines into their
healthcare systems; the United States is a striking exception. Few in
this country understand that pharmaceuticals are not easily
biodegradable, the elegant complexity and safety of plant medicines, or
the contributions of North American tribal cultures. But plants are the
oldest medicine...
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Petroforms
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Throughout the ages, mankind has created relationships with the stars. Cultures wove their beliefs and traditions into stories told around campfires or inside their homes. While modern man typically considers this sharing process to have been mostly an oral tradition, perhaps some enterprising ancient North Americans also put their cosmology into a more permanent record. Instead of paper, they used the ground; instead of pens and pencils, they used colored stones.
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Rez Biz: Growing Native Economies
By Rob McDonald
| Published 11/1/2003
| Science & Technology , Business , Non Profits , Daniel Gibson , November/December , S'Klallam , Dogrib , Inupiaq , Colville , Kumeyaay , Zuni , Yaqui , Wintu , Sioux , Hochunk , Mashantucket Pequot , Potawatomi , Oneida , Caddo , Choctaw , Chippewa
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 Despite
the recent relative economic success of casino gambling on some Indian
reservations throughout America, Indian Country and Native individuals
generally remain low on the nation\'s economic ladder...
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Native Scientists Taking Off
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Native Americans are renowned as great artists. Their history as proud and courageous warriors is well known. And they are with equal measures of romanticism and reality revered as mystics exploring the edges of human consciousness and being. But today, laboring in obscurity, they are also electrical, aeronautical, software and materials engineers, research biologists, oil geologists, hydrologists, doctors of medicine, inventors and even astronauts.
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