Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask

Mary Siisip Geniusz (1948–2016) was of Cree and Métis descent and a member of the Bear Clan. She worked as an oshkaabewis (a traditional Anishinaabe apprentice) with the late Keewaydinoquay, an Anishinaabe medicine woman and ethnobotanist from Michigan. She taught ethnobotany, American Indian studies, and American multicultural studies at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, and Minnesota State University-Moorhead.  Wendy Makoons Geniusz is of Cree and Métis descent. She is assistant professor in the Department of Languages at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, where she teaches Ojibwe language courses.