Guest Speaker for Berkshire OLLI's focus on Indigenous People
Traditional Medicine
Honoring Our Indigenous Heritage: Native People, Plants, Pollinators
Misty Cook is a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. She is the author of the 2013 book "Medicine Generations: Natural Native American Medicines Traditional to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Tribe" and she will be speaking on June 17 to a class being given by Berkshire OLLI.
https://berkshireolli.org/IndigenousSummerOne2022
Those who are members of Berkshire OLLI may already be aware of this course, which begins Friday, June 3. More information about the course and about OLLI can be found via the link given.
Misty's book documents 58 Native American herbal medicines passed down through her family tree of Wolf Clan Medicine People, and via tribal stories. She describes gathering and identifying these plants and preparing them through teas, tinctures, salves, and poultices. And she highlights the spirituality of plant medicine and the gifting culture within which they are shared.