Indigenous plant diva
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Audio Visual and Multimedia Materials
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Publication Year
2007
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada, Canada
Tags
Wyss Cease, Environment and Conservation, Women, Plants, Health and Medicine, Traditional medicine -- British Columbia, Traditional ecological knowledge, Ethnopharmacology -- British Columbia -- Vancouver, Ethnobotany -- British Columbia -- Vancouver, Ethnobotany, Ethnopharmacology, Traditional medicine, British Columbia, British Columbia -- Vancouver, Indigenous peoples -- Ethnobotany -- British Columbia, Indigenous peoples -- Ethnobotany
Description
"In the language of the Squamish Nation, Cease Wyss was given the name 'T'Uy'Tanat', meaning "Woman who travels by canoe to gather medicines for all people." In director Kamala Todd's lyrical portrait, Wyss reveals the remarkable healing powers of plants growing among the sprawling urban streets of downtown Vancouver.
Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, the gentleness of comfrey, or the blood red streaks of frog leaf, plants carry with them millennia of wisdom, communicated through colour, texture and form. Cease Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language, and is now passing this ancient and intimate sense of connection to her own daughter, Senaqwila."--Back of case.
Whether it's the secret curl of a fiddlehead, the gentleness of comfrey, or the blood red streaks of frog leaf, plants carry with them millennia of wisdom, communicated through colour, texture and form. Cease Wyss has been listening to this unspoken language, and is now passing this ancient and intimate sense of connection to her own daughter, Senaqwila."--Back of case.
Number of Copies
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