RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 White Pine in Time and Place
JF History of Pharmacy and Pharmaceuticals
JO His of Phar and Pharma
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 302
OP 327
DO 10.3368/hopp.63.2.302
VO 63
IS 2
A1 Flood, Macey
A1 Myhal, Natasha
YR 2022
UL http://hopp.uwpress.org/content/63/2/302.abstract
AB 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.