Title: 50 Plant Medicines: Indigenous Oral History and Perspective

Written by: Chenae Bullock

About the Author

Chenae Bullock, an enrolled Shinnecock Indian Nation Tribal Member and descendant of the Montauk Tribe in Long Island New York. Chenae is a community leader, water protector, cultural preservationist, Indigenous perspective historian, and humanitarian. She has worked at many accredited Indigenous museums such as the Shinnecock Indian Museum and Cultural Center, Plimoth Plantation, and Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. She has organized historically sacred paddles in the ancient waterways of the northeastern seaboard. Some of her most recent work has led her to assess for signs of submerged cultural history for the Atlantic Shores Cultural Core Analysis. She successfully served as a Tribal Alternate on behalf of the Shinnecock Nation for the Mid-Atlantic Committee on the Ocean, which facilitates coordination and collaboration among governmental entities and stakeholders to enhance the vitality of our region’s ocean ecosystem.

About the Book

It’s hard to protect what you cannot recognize. Many people are aware of herbs and their healing properties but are unable to identify them if they walk upon them on a hike. This book was written with good intent to educate more people so they can understand the value of the plants and protect our earth.

Many of the plants described in the book are used by Indigenous peoples differently from one another. Chenae Bullock shares her oral history can also be similar or different from other communities. The purpose of writing this book is to help share her own medicine to help readers in their journey to learn more about the plant medicines that have been used for thousands of years.