Dr. Hannah Anderson will give a lecture titled Plant Talk in Early America: Exchanges of Botanical Knowledge among Settlers and Indigenous People in the Seventeenth-Century Northeast.

Despite cultural differences, settlers and Indigenous people in the northeast and mid-Atlantic frequently shared botanical knowledge, including information about medicinal and culinary plants. This talk explores the range of situations in which such dialogues could occur,
probes European and Indigenous healing techniques, and describes how members of each group conceptualized plants in the context of ecologies that were rapidly changing due to migration and colonialism.

The six sessions of the 2024-2025 Evenings with History series will be held on the first Tuesdays of October, December, February, March, and April, and on the second Tuesday of November. Refreshments are served at 7:00 p.m., and the talk begins at 7:30 p.m. This year’s lectures will be held in the Ottenheimer Auditorium at the Historic Arkansas Museum, 200 E. Third Street in Little Rock.