Ethnobotany | Essential Plants & Trees PNW Native Americans

Need better sight of plants and trees up close instead of focusing on you, majorly! Missed out on that. Otherwise you dis an pretty good job. Beautiful and great content.

What river is this?

Interesting however to talk about wild edibles without discussing toxic look alikes is worrisome. Discussion of queens Anne lace without mentioning water hemlock is a missed opportunity

How do i get a wilderness strong tshirt? I would love to buy one and help support this channel.

I'm not Native, but I have Native friends, and I'm even in a relationship with someone of Yaquí heritage (who is, unfortunately, distanced from that heritage; look up what Porfírio Diaz did to the Yaquí if you want a general idea). I appreciate seeing a video on the regional ethnobotany of the PNW, but, echoing the Indigenous commenters here, I encourage you to speak of them in the present tense. Although colonization has forced many not to rely on foraging so much to sustain themselves, many still do forage, at least for cultural reasons. In any case, these people are still living, and deserve the respect of that fact being acknowledged, after all they've had - and still have - to struggle through to survive. I'm not attributing any malice to you, and I enjoyed the video. This is just a suggestion of a small but vital improvement you can make.

this is by far the best video ive come across since learning about the plants around me, thank you so much for being so in depth with this your passion for these plants really shows

Thank you for this video! Very informative and appreciated. One suggestion: Please refer to the Native populations in a contemporary perspective. While the innovations of our people are 100s, 1,000s of years ago, the people are still here, present, and still use these innovations. What this does is present Native populations in a contemporary context and counters the idea that Native tribes are extinct. This is not meant to be a criticism. I appreciate the channel and the work you've put into it and, especially, the tribute you give to the Native tribes for their contributions! 🙂👍🏾

Ugh. Making cordage. I hate doing it so much. It hurts my hands. I have a spinning wheel and so line to figure out how to make threads or twine with natural materials - plants. I do wool already but summertime is too hot for wool. I'm looking to make a type of linen. I don't have enough nettles yet. But we have tons of thistle and blackberries. I have made baskets with the blackberry bark. Today I did some prep work on the blackberry vine and picked off the inner layer that is used.for cordage. I tried making cordage by hand for a little while. I tried spinning it. I tried shaving it into wool-like fluffs. Didn't get far with that, either. It's very frustrating when I'm trying add in new pieces.

I really enjoyed the willow demonstration portion of the video; thank you for taking the time. Two thumbs up!

is that naches valley??

What species of dogwood is that? It look different from cornus florida, the species that's native to where I live. I had no idea they were edible. I had only heard about cornus kousa, the Japanese type that gets used for landscaping around here. Also, thank you for showing how to harvest the bark from a willow branch. Now I know where I went wrong the last time I attempted it. This video was filled with great info, but less experienced viewers should probably be warned to be careful if they try harvesting Queen Ann's Lace aka daucus carota aka wild carrot. There are some deadly look-alikes (a few species of hemlock) that can grow in the same habitat. Great video!

I am a bit of an ethnobotanalist myself

Excellent, thank you.

I loved every moment of this

Yes

Thanks man! Great vid cheers from WA

Please make more of these! This is awesome!

Wonderful video! Lots helpful insight for myself as a young ethnobotanist. I come from the Newe or Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and also the Chippewa Cree Tribes. Our Newe people traditionally use many of these plants that are spread out across today's state and country borders. If I could make a suggestion, I believe it would be appreciated by all Indigenous descendants to have you speak of our ancestral practices in the present tense as we are still here, still have our cultures, and still have strong relations with these many plants + practices. Although genocide and assimilation have disrupted our traditional knowledge in some ways, many of us still utilize our ancestral wisdom on the daily. Oose (thank you)!

Danke schön from Bavaria..
Great Video and iam imprest how fast an accurate you speak.
Cool Shirt ..kind regards
Albert

Great video, I love learning about ethnobotany. Can you make a video on basketry or foraging for food and/or the storage methods that native Americans used?

The yellow paint from the root and the woman in bark clothing seems interesting. Would love to see you guys explore more of that.

You give a great description of why people do living history.
This is my new favorite channel. Is there somewhere I can buy one of your t-shirts? I want to wear it to the next big BCUSA gathering coming up.

Love that I've found a channel with an ethnobotany focus, especially in the PNW!

Very cool my friend 🤠

Great stuff, I'm in the uk, but a lot of the plants that grow in the US grow here too.