In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest
Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there.
They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and
plant material during snow-free months, including gathering greens
during spring, picking berries each summer, harvesting tubers from the
caches of tundra voles, and gathering a variety of medicinal plants. The
book is intended as a guide to the identification and use of edible and
medicinal plants in southwest Alaska, but also as an enduring record of
what Yup'ik men and women know and value about plants and the roles
plants continue to play in Yup'ik lives.