My grandmother taught me Cherokee plant medicine before she died, and my daughter wants to learn, but I'm terrified of teaching her wrong or appropriating my own heritage since I was raised mostly off the reservation, and we keep having these awkward conversations where I feel like I'm failing both my ancestors and my child.
More people experience this than they realize.
The transmission of ancestral plant knowledge becomes fraught when cultural continuity has been broken and the teacher questions their own legitimacy.
“Where Are You with Herbal medicine across traditions?”
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