Squamish ethnobotanist creates new plant teaching tool

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Squamish ethnobotanist creates new plant teaching tool

Ethnobotanist, researcher and community activist Styawat Leigh Joseph of Squamish First Nation has created a new guide to Indigenous plants. It’s in an illustrated card deck format and is based on her doctoral work on Indigenous plants and their uses. Illustrations are by Indigenous artists Sarah Jim and Ocean Hyland. The Held by the Land Deck includes 45 cards describing plants and their properties and comes with a 48-page guidebook that shares…