Cherokee Nation Can Gather Sacred Plants on National Park Land [nytimes.com]

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) 4/28/2210:30 AM

By Alyssa Lukpat, Photo: Andre Seale/VW PICS/Universal Images Group/Getty Images, The New York Times, April 27, 2022

For generations, the Cherokee had gathered plants along the Buffalo River in Arkansas. The flora could be used to make a wide variety of things: blow guns, baskets, medicine and even ganatsi, a hickory nut soup.

Then, in 1972, the National Park Service took over the river and made it illegal to remove plants there without permission from the authorities.

The move cut off a valuable supply of river cane, bloodroot, sage and other plants, which can be difficult to find on the Cherokee Nation’s reservation in northeastern Oklahoma, on the border with Arkansas.

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