“The connection to who we are as a people has everything to do with the plants.”
—Tongva cultural educator, Craig Torres
The Ethnobotany Project: Contemporary Uses of Native Plants; Southern California and Northern Baja Indians focuses on the contemporary uses of 12 native plants.
All are of profound importance to the intellectual, spiritual, and cultural vitality of California Indian people.
Our many consultants on both sides of the border consider the native plants their teachers, and they’re dedicated to passing on what they know to others.
Our consultants are eloquent defenders of the land, its sacredness for Native people and its importance for all species who inhabit it.
All have a fierce devotion to the revitalization of native foods, medicines, culture and community as part of the larger cultural revitalization sweeping California.
