Eli James’s Reviews > Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science > Status Update

Chapter 1 - Indigenous Teaching: Nature Protects You as Long as You Protect Nature is a spiritually and culturally moving and powerful chapter, detailing mainly the story from Dr. Hernandez’s father which led to the naming of the book “Fresh Banana Leaves”. This chapter places these experiences within cultural contexts and explains the role settler colonialism, war, and trauma plays in Indigenous communities.