E. Barrie Kavasch Knihy

American Indian Healing Arts is a magical blend of plant lore, history, and living tradition that draws on a lifetime of study with native healers by herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch. Here are the time-honored tribal rituals performed to promote good health, heal illness, and bring mind and spirit into harmony with nature. Here also are dozens of safe, effective earth remedies--many of which are now being confirmed by modern research. Each chapter introduces a new stage in the life cycle, from the delightful Navajo First Smile Ceremony (welcoming a new baby) to the Apache Sunrise Ceremony (celebrating puberty) to the Seminole Old People's Dance. At the heart of the book are more than sixty easy-to-use herbal remedies--including soothing rubs for baby, a yucca face mask for troubled skin, relaxing teas, massage oils, natural insect repellents, and fragrant smudge sticks. There are also guidelines for assembling a basic American Indian medicine chest.

This volume provides insights for students on tracing their ancestry, particularly for those who are adopted or from non-traditional families. It emphasizes the importance of understanding one's roots by exploring the reasons and methods behind genealogical research, making it accessible and relevant for diverse backgrounds.

This collection features over 100 new haiku, along with senryu, tanka, renga, and haibun, celebrating the art of succinct observation. The poems predominantly highlight Nature, capturing vivid moments across seasons, from the moon and ocean to deserts and mountains. As the collection progresses, it delves into introspective themes and the complexities of modern life. Each piece offers a lively glimpse into journeys, showcasing the unique beauty and brevity that defines haiku poetry.

The book explores the rich history and cultural significance of the Ancient Mound Builders, who constructed sacred earthen structures across North America for 4,000 years. It delves into their sophisticated society, highlighting their roles as shamans, farmers, and artists, and their deep connection to Mother Earth. The narrative includes a detailed timeline, contextualizing their achievements alongside global events, and showcases their impressive engineering feats and artistic expressions, providing insight into the worldviews of these remarkable ancient cultures.

ENDURING HARVESTS celebrates the year with Native American Indian foods and festivities. More than 150 tempting Native American recipes here have been adapted for the modern kitchen, making use of vegetables, fruits, fish, and game indigenous to the Americas. Delve into the delicious worlds of American Indian cookery and glimpse the cultures who made food preparation an art as well as a prayer for health and peace. Countless celebrations will charm you with a deeper respect for Native American foods and spiritual life honoring nature and the earth in every month of the year. Come journey from the Arctic Circle to Peru, and feel deliciously at home in Indian America.

Are the red ones poisonous? Can you eat a puff ball? Our questions about mushrooms are legion. This handy guide offers many of the answers. Their seasons, colours, sizes, characteristics, and especially their edibility are dealt with in succinct detail, and coloured photographs offer additional help in identification. Many mushrooms should be collected only by camera -- but these ones are clearly noted in the text. Those which make such delightful additions to gourmet meals are here too, complete with hints on how to cook them and herbs to add. Whether you are mycologist (a person who studies mushrooms) or a mycophagist ( a person who likes to eat wild mushrooms), this is an invaluable filed guide.

"The most intelligent and brilliantly researched book on the food of the American Indian." —Craig Claiborne, The New York TimesThis wonderful book is not just a recipe collection, but a passport to foraging and to surviving close to nature. It will tell you how to prepare familiar foods such as stuffed clams and corn chowder, but also how to fix clover soup, purslane salad, young milkweed spears, wild rice with hazelnuts and blueberries, fiddlehead stew, meadow mushroom pie, stewed wild rabbit with dumplings, spoon bread, acorn coffee, and witch hazel tea. Beautifully illustrated by the author (herself of American Indian descent), this book is also an invaluable manual on herbal medicines and ceremonial, sacred, and poisonous plants — all written with acute sensitivity to and appreciation of Native American ways.

The American Indian medicine wheel was an ancient way of creating sacred space and calling forth the healing energies of nature. Now, drawing on a lifetime of study with native healers, herbalist and ethnobotanist E. Barrie Kavasch offers a step-by-step guide to bringing this beautiful tradition into your own life--from vibrantly colorful outdoor circle designs to miniature dish, windowsill, or home altar adaptations. Inside you’ll find:• Planting guides for medicine wheel gardens in every zone, from desert Southwest to northern woodlands• A beautifully illustrated encyclopedia of 50 key healing herbs, including propagation needs, traditional and modern uses, and cautions• Easy-to-follow herbal recipes, from teas and tonics to skin creams and soaps--plus delicious healing foods• Ideas for herbal crafts and ceremonial objects, including smudge sticks, wind horses, prayer ties, and spirit shields• Seasonal rituals, offerings, and meditations to bless and empower your garden and your friends, and much morePractical, beautiful, and inspiring, The Medicine Wheel Garden leads us on a powerful journey to rediscovering the sacred in everyday life as we cultivate our gardens . . . and our souls.

Book HANDS OF SELECTED POETRY & HAIKU IN FIVE SEASONS is a compilation of nature poetry, personal observations, journeys, dreams, chants, meditations, and shamanic journeys into non-ordinary realities marking more than four decades of writing (and re-writing). Many of these poems have been previously published in earlier forms and a few were published under several pseudonyms during the 1980s. The haiku and tanka are part of this work's central theme, expressing close observations of unforgettable moments, or often just a fine detail. Blank verse and free verse complement the broader rhythms of prose ideas offered here. Most of the poems are brought together and published here for the first time in this new work. The New York Times said about E. Barrie Kavasch's first book, NATIVE RECIPES & BOTANICALS OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS,(Random House/Vintage, 1979)..."The most intelligent and brilliantly researched book on the foods of the American Indians."

Along roadsides and trails, wild plants blaze out their glory: in hedgerows and marshes their more retiring relatives bloom modestly. The wild harvest is there for the taking, delicious, unusual, sure to please the inquiring palate. Ninety-five species are captured in this intriguing book -- in photographs and in words. How to use them, where to find them, what to watch for -- and special cautions when a plant is difficult to digest, unusually pungent, or easy to confuse with a poisonous relative. The book is organised by season to help the amateur gatherer identify the species. Sumac candies anyone? Acornburgers perhaps? Wild Strawberry tea or Wild Leek pickles to add interest to your diet? This field guide will fascinate nature lovers and gourmets alike.