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  Native American Medicinal Garden   

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Native American Medicinal Garden

  • Location: ISM Chicago Gallery, Chicago
  • Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Science Conversations in Partnership with Science Chicago

Sally Wagoner, Health and Wellness Center Coordinator at the American Indian Center of Chicago, will present a hands-on discussion of medicinal plants. The AIC's Medicinal Garden includes 141 species of plants and 7 species of fungi that have edible, medicinal, ceremonial, or industrial qualities. Learn how Native Peoples of the past and present have utilized these gifts of nature.

Free and open to the public. Please call 312-814-5318 with questions.

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