Welcome to the ethnobotany home page for Fort Lewis College and the Southwest. Our site is devoted to collecting and disseminating ethnobotanical information on a local level.

"Over there, I, from the flower-covered dawn, I am walking, here, I, out on the enchanted light blue earth, I am a person.

Miki Maaso, Potam Pueblo

..."We were taught that we don't pick the whole thing. We leave some because God gave us this wonderful food, not just for the human beings but for all of us."

Isabel Kent, Southern Ute

"The status of the oak is poor today compared to when I was growing up. The impacts are the green lawns, construction, sewer lines and people."

-Jay Johnson, Southern Sierra Miwok

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