PLANT GRANT INFO
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PLANT PROGRAM DISCLAIMER
Information contained on this webpage is NOT intended to be used as a guide for healing or self medication.
Historically, medicinal plants were used only by skilled and knowledgeable people, such as traditional healers.
Inappropriate medicinal use of plants may result in harm or death.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE GUIDE
This project was made possible with Grants from Alaska Native Fund through Alaska Conservation Foundation and Chugachmiut Mini Heritage Fund. Thank You for your contribution!
Acknowledgments
Many people provided support, encouragement, and time towards the completion of the Port Graham Ethnobotany Web Page Project / Traditional Knowledge and Gathering of Local Plant Lore Project. Their thoughts, ideas, and concerns about traditional plant use are entwined throughout our web page. I would like to extend a heartfelt thank-you to Daryl Kreun, Project Manager for the Port Graham Ethnobotany Web Page Project / traditional knowledge and gathering of local plant lore project for the Port Graham Village Council because, without his awesome grant application, we may have never had the opportunity to do this (much needed) project. I would also like to extend an enormous thank you to the Elders of Port Graham, past and present, for sharing their valuable Traditional Elder Knowledge. Their input was instrumental in the success of this project. I would also like to thank Pricilla N. Russell for generously supplying plant information in her book Nanwalek and Port Graham Alutiiq Plantlore. Plant descriptions have also come from Medicinal Flora of the Alaska Natives by Ann Garibaldi unless otherwise noted. Many descriptions’ and cautionary notes were adapted from Discovering Wild Plants by Janice Schofield as well. Thank you, thank you, Vanessa Norman, Port Graham Village Council Webmaster, who provided outstanding skills and ideas for the Web Page.
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Any work of this nature is built upon the previous efforts of people who have provided a foundation on which to perform a literature compilation. Priscilla Russell, Ann Garibaldi, Janice Schofield, and many others are owed special thanks for their outstanding publications on cultural plant use in Alaska (see the Bibliography for a complete list).
Finally, I wish to show my appreciation to all of the youth, parents & families that participated in gathering, processing and preserving this year’s plant lore who has helped shape this Web Page through conversations and stories about cultural plant use. Pass it on!