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White Pine in Time and Place

Anishinaabe History, Western Herbalism, and the Settler Dynamics of Appropriation

Macey Flood and Natasha Myhal
History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals, July 2022, 63 (2) 302-327; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/hopp.63.2.302
Macey Flood
Euro-settler historian and aVisiting Scholar at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston;
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Natasha Myhal
Enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. MarieTribe of Chippewa Indians and a PhD candidate in Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder;
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Abstract

In recent years, Western herbalists, often of settler descent, have contended with a lineage of appropriation and their ongoing relationships with Native plants, communities, and land. Critical—and hard to find—are stories of botanical circulations that foreground the dynamics of circulation, pluralism, and colonialism in which appropriation can be understood and its lessons applied. This article offers one such story. White pine was—and is—an important medicine within Indigenous Ojibwe medical traditions. As such, it was studied and written about by ethnobotanists working in close relation to Ojibwe communities in the early twentieth century. Such circulations took place amid land allotment, industrialized logging, the devastation of pine forests, and the marginalization of botanic practices. Situating stories of white pine in Indigenous, settler colonial, and herbal studies, this article argues that long histories of Western herbalism illuminate botanical appropriation as a settler logic with important consequences for present-day herbal practices.

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  • ethnobotany
  • white pine
  • settler colonialism
  • Western herbalism
  • botanical appropriation
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