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Healing Plants Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians - Alice Micco Snow and Susan Enns Stans - University Press of Florida

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Healing plants and Seminole medicine

Since the early 1700s, the Seminole Indians have called Florida, home. They adapted to this environment, finding food and shelter, as well as medicine. And while several thousand Seminoles remain, their use of herbal treatments and remedies has given way to readily available modern medicine. Anthropologist Susan Stans has co-authored a book on the Healing Plants with Seminole elder Alice Snow...

When the Seminole Indians came to Florida in the 1700s, they settled in the places they could successfully hide from white settlers. And while the swamps of interior Florida were challenging, they did yield food and shelter, as well as medicine. That's of particular interest to Anthropologist Susan Stans...

Anthropologist Susan Stans is co-author of a new book called "Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians." In it, she relates the story of how early Seminoles--forced into hiding in the Everglades--still managed to find herbal treatments and remedies...

Some medicines that Florida's Seminole Indians began using hundreds of years ago, are still attracting attention today. Anthropologist Susan Stans has co-authored a book about Seminole medicine and says one of the early herbal resources came from the abundant Saw Palmetto...

When the Seminole Indians began settling in Florida in the 1700s, they looked to the land for their medicines. But that heritage is dying off. Anthropologist Susan Stans is co-author of a new book called "Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians."