Plant/People
Plant/People is a community-oriented cross-cultural oral history archive of contemporary herbalists and other self-identified plant-people living in Dakota, Anishinaabe, and other Indigenous territories in Minnesota.
About
The oral histories that Plant/People have and continue to gather are a resource for their own families and communities. They anticipate that several participants will be comfortable making portions of their histories available to educators and the university community. These interviews are a potent source of information on the social, cultural, political, and even ecological development of the state, demonstrating interconnections between mobility and migration; race, class, and gender; and urban and rural tending of land.
Because of the longstanding erasure, illegalization, and marginalization of many plant practices, intersecting histories of plants and health are nearly impossible to locate in other archived historical and contemporary sources in Minnesota. The collection, care, and analysis of these stories is an opportunity to apply University resources towards community needs while reckoning with the ongoing erasure and marginalization of many plant practices, particularly those of minoritized peoples.
A Minnesota Tranform intern supported Plant/People in processing interivews and oral history transcripts and conducting research.
