“The medicines of the Appalachian Cherokee and other native groups that settled in these hills may have come through the insight of shamanic journeys, with one looking towards the light of the sky and the other towards the darkness of the underworld. Their folk traditions and stories as well as their reasoning as to why anything was created to begin with, is informative, emotional and sometimes funny. Native medicines and agricultural techniques were a huge gift to a society that had knowledge but not local familiarity. “ From the book: Granny Buck’s Dibs and Dabs
