Library Guides @ VIU: INTR 211: Indigenous and Western Sciences of Plants and our Environment: Films

Film Databases - (streaming videos that can be viewed from off campus)

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- search for specific topics e.g. medicinal plants
Digital video for thousands of educational titles. All videos in this collection are cleared for public performance.

Indigenous Plant Diva, 2009
Call Number E 98 M4 I53 Stacks
on video shelf, Cowichan Campus
"Cease Wyss reveals the remarkable healing powers of plants growing in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia."
The Shaman's Apprentice, 2004
Call Number F 2230.1 B7 S52 2001 [Video Shelves]
Nanaimo Campus
"Documents the work of ethnobotanist Dr. Mark J. Plotkin and the work of the Amazon Conservation Team as he studies with Indian tribes and Maroons in the northeast Amazon rainforest, encouraging them to value and pass on their knowledge of the medicinal/healing properties of rainforest plants not only to him, but to their own children."
A Treasury of plant medicines, 2006
Whose plants are they, anyway?, 2004

The warmth of love: The four seasons of Sophie Thomas
Call Number: E 98 M4 W37 2000 [Video shelves] Nanaimo campus
Publication Date: 2000
"Profiles Sophie Thomas, an 87-year old traditional healer of the Carrier Nation who lives by the Nechako River in Stoney Creek. She takes viewers on a tour of the land where she makes medicine from plants and trees. The philosophy of First Nations regarding the environment is given a personal twist. The negative effects of dams and clearcuts are reflected on the ecology of the area, where the quality of the air, river water and trees are all compromised."