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Wildlife Herbs and Ekani Le (California)

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Totonacjv:
This small business is located in the Sierra Mountains in California. The business owner has a partner whose family owns a "Native plant" farm, and she sells various holistic health products with Native American branding. People of color can also be frauds and engage in native american cultural erasure if they get the opportunity to. Please call her business out. The plants are growing on occupied Mi-wuk territory and she probably does not know why it is harmful to be using Native American branding in her region.
Feel free to find her on instagram: @le_ekani
www.wildlifeherbs.com

Totonacjv:
She is Vietnamese to make that clear.

educatedindian:
This should be posted under Research Needed.

I don't see any sign of claiming to be Native, either the people or the products. Could you point to that?

Sparks:
The company and the two partners are on Facebook, too:

https://www.facebook.com/Wildlife-Herbs-424514508287031/ [Wildlife Herbs]

https://www.facebook.com/ekanile88 [Ekani Le]

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100009103339520 [Kern Houghten]

Ekani Le has a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsCgPUkZsSalqBXtTPBQgcw

Totonacjv:
@educatedindian
Sure, if that is where it needs to go I am fine with that. I am still new to this forum. Just hear me out on this. When I met the seller in-person I asked her what was Yerba Santa and she told me that it was used by Native Americans to smoke and to use as a tonic. She then politely wanted to know about my cultural background, and she reported that was Vietnamese. I politely asked why the Native Americans use this herb and she gave me some vague information, not ever mentioning the tribe's name or the Native territory that they harvest from.  Also, if you visit her webpage and look at the photos posted under the "blog" section they are new age frauds using chakra banners at "Cultural events" in white majority communities. They are from a white-majority area called, Twaine Harte. I have visited that place a few times. Here are the demographics of the region:

https://datausa.io/profile/geo/twain-harte-ca#demographics

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