Special Guest Speaker at Marshfield Public Library on Thursday
Tuesday, April 10th, 2018 -- 7:58 AM
-On Thursday, April 12 at 7 p.m., Misty Cook, Native American herbalist and author of ”Medicine Generations, Natural Native American Medicines Traditional to the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Indian Tribe,” will speak at the Marshfield Public library.The People from the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans Indian Tribe have always used Medicines derived from natural plants for health and healing that has helped sustain the tribe through their cultural ways. Misty Cook has documented through oral tradition Native American herbal Medicines that have been told through stories in her family within the tribe. Cook will lead a discussion about Native American herbs and natural healing. This program one of many activities surrounding the Wisconsin Reads: The Round House.
The purpose is to bring communities around the state together to discuss Louise Erdrich’s The Round House. Written in the voice of a thirteen-year-old boy named Joe, whose mother has been brutally raped, the novel explores the impact of the rape on family members and the tribal community in particular, as well as the larger issue of sexual assault on Native American women.
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