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 tend plants. Moderated by Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Bioneers Executive Director. With: Leah Mata Fragua (Yak Tityu Tityu Yak Tiłhini); Jess Rouse (Illmawi Band of the Pit River Nation, Hupa, Wintu); and Brittany Burrows (Nomlaki-Wintun, Pomo).