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Why Do Leaves Change Color In The Fall
Botany Project Blog post
Indigenous plants, Cultures and wisdom can all be conserved by doing the simplest of things. Will it take a bit of work? Yes but we can even do things like writing down traditions and keeping the knowledge circulating by telling others. Encouraging them to participate in botany. Giving them great, natural, and environmentally positive power. Humans can take the essence of plants and place it inside of areas that they will thrive in. If the area does not exist during the time of year then we can create it with our own two hands. A plants anatomy is important but not everything in regards to it’s physiology. Yes the basic layout of the plant is determined by what it’s made up by but there are many different looking plants that have the same functions or uses. I say we keep the traditions alive and help our world blossom not wilt. All that there is to wonder is; Will you help save our environment?
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Ethnobotany
The way that indigenous plants and the culture be preserved as a whole is by having more classes teach these kind of things. This information can be shared amongst students at the grade level of 5th grade and could teach it again in sophomore year of high school. There could be special schools days where they acknowledge indigenous culture and spend a day or however long they want to spend celebrating and cultivating that culture. Plant anatomy affects plant physiology because plants need to be structurally strong so that it can do certain features; a plant that thrives in rainy conditions and is built for humid areas such as the rainforest isn't going to work the same if it was suddenly put in a environment like a desert, it wouldn’t survive. Humans interactions affects a plants ability to adapt to changing climates if it’s a plant that is always in a constant environment. If a plant is always being nurtured by having constant light and being given water at certain times throughout the day the plant will never have to experience a drought of water or sometimes not seeing the sun. Since the plant is in a constant environment it will always know only that constant.
Ethnobtany and Culture
Through this project I had the chance to learn more about agriculture. I learned about the different tribes that had a big influence on agriculture. They helped with the society especially when it comes to trading. Different tribes used to trade food, animals, and raw materials. We depend on the growth of these crops for food, health, and even clothes. Before we bought everything we need from a grocery store, Native tribes would plant and cultivate crops to survive. They used agriculture to their advantage and made the most out of everything.
One of the tribes that I learned the most from was the:
The Sioux tribe, from South Dakota-
They lived in teepees, wore clothing made from animal skin such as buffalo, the clothing usually consisted of Fur, leather, and suede. They traded buffalo products for crops such as corn. They got this from tribes of plains (tribes found within Canada, and The U.S). Females were good at bead embroidery, while men usually performed raids on other tribes. They believed in 4 powers that controlled the universe.
Animals such as Buffalo and Bear were a big deal to them usually used in rituals, and celebrations. Although they tended to crops and used them as a source of income. Their main source of income was the animals they killed and herded. The weapons and clothing made from the fur and skin of these animals were highly praised and sold well.
Ethnobotany & Cultures
Within the Agriculture community we've had many different types of groups amplify and pitch in increasing agriculture and spreading it. One of those being the indigenous tribes found within the U.S and basically everywhere else. We studied multiple tribes such as Lanape, San, Angami, Sioux e.t.c. Within these tribes we've seen how important agriculture was to them. Usually being the drive force to their tribe and growth as a community. Something like this helps explain the heavy background agriculture carries which is why it's praised and held to such high standards. Looking into this helped a lot and made me more interested in researching in said Topic.
Comparative Ethnobotany
REFLECTION:
Indigenous plants, cultures and wisdom should be conserved by spreading awareness of indigenous people and their background. They use every plant in a different way depending what the plant is good for. Depending on the plant, like herbs can be used as medicinal, while other plants like fruits, nuts, vegies, is used as food. If humans genetically modify the plants to help change with the environment, it will allow the plants to survive in those specific environments, etc. What stood out to us was how many different organizations there was to help out the Indigenous plants and people.
Comparative Ethnobotany
Q1 Benchmark
For our project we studied four different native tribes from around the world, including the Lenape from Philadelphia, Sioux from North Dakota, San from Southern Africa, and the Angami from Nagaland India. We studied their culture and learned about how they used agriculture in their society. With what we learned we can conserve their culture and wisdom by using some of their planting techniques, and trying to use plants as much as they did. These tribes incorporated agriculture into their daily lives and made sure to get the most out of everything. Plants in new climates can either become invasive or just not do well in a new environment. If we keep them in their natural climate and respect land as much as the indigenous people did/ do then we will have a more positive affect instead of negative. From this project I realized how native tribes helped shape agriculture and their use of plants and materials was rather conserved and not wasteful. I think this is something we can still use today in order to get the most out of all that we use.
Botany Reflection
While me and my group was working together, we came across a few interesting indigenous people. The ingenious group we researched are Inuit, Lenape Indians, Bedouin, and Himba. Now in terms of how can indigenous plants and cultures can be preserved, It would take a community to actually put more effort into making sure that certain plants and wisdom are passed down. Therefore making sure that practices are passed down and things continue to be practiced. The structure of a plant affects how they function meaning whatever they are built off of will determine how they will interact with life. For example, a dandelion has the ability to allow its particles to be blown away in the wind so that it can further travel across the world. Humans can affect how plants are affected by the climate change because when we truly think about it, the affect on the plants are truly influenced by whatever humans do. The atomosphere is corrupted because of humans because of fossil fuels and that affects the plants when it comes to O2
Comparative Ethnography
With the indigenous knowledge, we are capable to help with the biodiversity, and we can also help the forest due to the traditions only working if the forest canopy is intact for example in the old, Africans used to conserve forests in a simple way. Indigenous wisdom is a valuable tradition among indigenous peoples, in these long traditions human problems have been taken care of by learning from other species and also from the wider natural processes in which we participate. The anatomy of a plant can affect plant physiology in a positive way because we are able to use various parts of a plant for a variety of things such as food, medicine, etc. Human interactions affect plants ability to adapt to changing climates because if it’s extremely hot then there can be droughts and plants won’t have enough water where in other areas they can drown to excessive water.
