North Carolina Botanical Garden Virtual Lecture: North Carolina Native Herbal Plant Remedies
with Arvis Boughman, Author, Lumbee Indian Tribe Member ; Robert RedHawk Eldridge, Native American Indian Storyteller/Living Historian
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Thursday, November 4, 2021
6:30 PM-8:00 PM
Venue: Zoom webinar
Free; preregistration required
During this talk, Mr. Arvis Boughman will discuss plants and herbal remedies that members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina have used for centuries in the coastal plain of North Carolina and continue to use today. Mr. Robert “RedHawk” Eldridge will discuss indigenous herbs and foodways of western North Carolina.
This program will be offered via Zoom Webinar. Links for accessing the program will be emailed to participants in the days leading up to the lecture.
This program has been made possible with a grant from Triangle Community Foundation's Sustainable Communities Grant Program.
The registration period has closed for this event.
Registration open until 11/4/2021 6:00 PM.
Arvis Boughman is a member of the Lumbee Indian tribe and the author of Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians and Chicora and the Little People that reflect his Lumbee Indian heritage. Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians details dozens of herbs the Lumbee have used for centuries to treat a variety of diseases from asthma to sprains. Robert RedHawk Eldridge is a Native American Indian Storyteller/Living Historian of the early 1800 Cherokee. He is an enrolled member of the Sappony Tribe.