Part II

Russell Willier’s Medicine Bundle

Part II consists of two chapters. Chapter Four describes a field trip in 2011 when David Young traveled more than 1,000 kilometers with Russell Willier to find plants used in his healing practice. Chapter Five describes each plant in Willier’s medicine bundle, illustrated with photographs of what a plant looks like in the summer and in the fall. Photographs are by David Young, unless otherwise noted. Robert Rogers, coauthor of the book, has provided additional information for each plant, to supplement the information provided by Russell Willier.

Russell Willier’s modern “medicine bundle” containing herbs, animal and bird parts, minerals, and ritual objects such as a pipe and rattle