While my recommended resource is not a web site, you may find it of interest. A
novel, Santa Apache by Oleta Steward Toliver (who, herself, is of American Indian
heritage), has quite a bit about "healing herbs" as used by the Native Americans of
the Southwest. The book is the story of a young woman who became a "healer" (hence
acquiring the name "Saint Apache"), and it names plants that we out on the Plains
readily recognize but may not be aware of the early uses. What is unique about this
book is that even though it is fiction, it has a bibliography. Ms. Toliver wants
her readers to know that the stories, plants, legends, history of the time are
accurate, so she includes a bibliography of books and articles that were her
sources.
Although the story is fiction, it is well researched and is set in the time period
when the Native Americans and Spaniards were first encountering each other from the
Llano Estacado to the Santa Fe region. I enjoyed it as an adult, but I believe it
targets high school aged students.
[The author has another book, a non-fiction, An Artist at War (War and Southwest
Series, University of North Texas Press).]
Betty Dawn
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Betty Dawn Hamilton (Using retired years to keep up with current events!)
LMS (Middle & High School)
Former Chair of Texas Association of School Librarians
Former Contributing Editor of "Profession" section, Texas Library Journal
Brownfield, TX
bhamilt@hughes.net
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From: "Dr. Michael Bell" <drmichaelbell@VIRTUALLRC.COM>
Dear Aileen,
Infotopia ( http://www.infotopia.info ) is an academic search engine accessing only
trusted websites previously selected by librarians, teachers and library and
educational consortia. Infotopia is recommended for students, teachers, and,
especially, homeschoolers. Because Infotopia is a Google custom search engine, you
get the cool Google search features, but without the garbage. With Infotopia, safe
search is always on.
I just searched Infotopia for "medicinal plants" and got a lot of really good
looking hits.
Sincerely,
Michael Bell
Former Chair, Texas Association of School Librarians
drmichaelbell@hotmail.com
Retired school and university librarian
webmaster at http://www.virtuallrc.com
webmaster at http://www.infotopia.info
webmaster at http://www.virtuallrc.com/magbot
webmaster at http://www.virtuallrc.com/alphamarks
webmaster at http://www.academicindex.net
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Dear wise ones,
Our seventh grade students are in the library pulling together information on
medicinal plants. Suddenly, a "pop-up" ad appears selling something totally
inappropriate. Unfortunately, our filters can't block the ads.
Does anyone have a suggestion for good search engines that do not promote (or that
filter out) this garbage, but still connect to useful sites? Google used to be much
better at this than they are now.
Thank you so much for any recommendations.
Aileen
Aileen Kay
Director of Library/Media Services
St. Mary and All Angels School
7 Pursuit, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656, U.S.A.
aileen.kay@smaa.org<mailto:aileen.kay@smaa.org>
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