Plants are our relatives, invaluable allies in sustaining our physical, mental and spiritual wellbeing, but the Indigenous care and use of plants has been severely disrupted by cultural appropriation, corporatization, and ecocide that violate plants’ protocols, rights, and life-cycles. In this session, cultural practitioners will discuss the protection of herbal medical traditions in the face of these challenges; explain how cultural practices have been passed down and revitalized to uphold our sacred relationships with plants; and share protocols of respect and reciprocity we should use whenever we grow, harvest and utilize plants. Moderated by Nazshonnii Brown-Almaweri, Program Manager in the Bioneers Indigeneity Program. With: Leah Mata Fragua; Jessie Rouse Whipple; Other TBA.