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Wildlife Herbs and Ekani Le (California)
Sparks:
--- Quote from: educatedindian on August 04, 2020, 01:20:12 am ---I don't see any sign of claiming to be Native, either the people or the products. Could you point to that?
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I noticed the same thing when perusing their Internet presence. This is the closest I came:
--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/about ---We are a small family living off the land, we consider ourselves "back to the lander's."
Practicing permaculture and primitive skills. Our mission is to make medicine from nature. We are a firm practitioner and believer of conscious wild harvesting.
Recently, we have been recovering from a forest fire that devastated 80,000 acres of our community. A positive outcome of this tragedy was the fertilization of the land, which allowed the native herbs to rebound in abundance and health. We harvest from native landscapes ranging from the Pacific Ocean to the High Sierra Mountains.
We minimize our environmental impact whenever possible, including shipping our products in reused, recyclable packaging. We are a family and team sharing our important values of ecology and stewardship and giving our appreciation and prayers back to the land.
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--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/product-page/smoke-blend ---Our Smoke Blend is an impressive blend of native herbs that were all gathered in the Californian sacred mountains. Smooth, bold, aroma that get's you naturally uplifted. If you enjoy smoking, this will be a great addition to help you to cut back on tobacco.
Use this sacred herb to do rituals & prayers. This blend is inspired by the Native Americans and Shamanic wisdom of the past.
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Totonacjv:
--- Quote from: Sparks on August 04, 2020, 01:42:24 am ---
--- Quote from: educatedindian on August 04, 2020, 01:20:12 am ---I don't see any sign of claiming to be Native, either the people or the products. Could you point to that?
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I noticed the same thing when perusing their Internet presence. This is the closest I came:
--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/about ---We are a small family living off the land, we consider ourselves "back to the lander's."
Practicing permaculture and primitive skills. Our mission is to make medicine from nature. We are a firm practitioner and believer of conscious wild harvesting.
Recently, we have been recovering from a forest fire that devastated 80,000 acres of our community. A positive outcome of this tragedy was the fertilization of the land, which allowed the native herbs to rebound in abundance and health. We harvest from native landscapes ranging from the Pacific Ocean to the High Sierra Mountains.
We minimize our environmental impact whenever possible, including shipping our products in reused, recyclable packaging. We are a family and team sharing our important values of ecology and stewardship and giving our appreciation and prayers back to the land.
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--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/product-page/smoke-blend ---Our Smoke Blend is an impressive blend of native herbs that were all gathered in the Californian sacred mountains. Smooth, bold, aroma that get's you naturally uplifted. If you enjoy smoking, this will be a great addition to help you to cut back on tobacco.
Use this sacred herb to do rituals & prayers. This blend is inspired by the Native Americans and Shamanic wisdom of the past.
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Thank you, Sparks
Totonacjv:
I posted this on the "New members welcome" thread: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5468.0
Feel free to research this brand called, "Wildlife Herbs"
Sparks, helped me out quote some of their products they claim to be Native American, when in fact, they do not have any NA heritage. I met the seller at and she never mentioned anything about the Mi-wuk territory that they harvest native plants from.
She is Vietnamese and her partner owns the native plant farm. They live in a white-majority hill town in Calaveras county.
Instagram: le_ekani
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
Sparks:
--- Quote from: Totonacjv on August 04, 2020, 02:31:55 am ---I posted this on the "New members welcome" thread: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5468.0
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--- Quote from: Sparks on August 04, 2020, 02:32:02 pm ---Totonacjv started a new topic in Research Needed:
http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=5469.0
[Hello, I want to call out a Native American fraud on my first post- repost]
I am suggesting these two threads be merged in Research Needed, with the topic name I coined.
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Sparks:
--- Quote from: Totonacjv on August 04, 2020, 01:36:22 am ---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. […] 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.
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Yerba Santa on the website (my bolding above and below):
--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/product-page/cold-allergy-relief ---Yerba Santa is known as "Holy Or Sacred Herb." This healing herb is best known to fight off sinus conditions, useful for the lungs, like asthma and runny nose. Helps clear mucus from the respiratory tract and allievating congestion. This plant ally is great for the seasonal allergies, and hay fever. This has been used when Natives roames around the indigenous lands and adopted by the Spanish settlers.
When there is an experience of grief, emotions to the heart and lungs, this is a sacred herb to feel full vitatlity into the spaces where it's contracted.
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Yerba Santa is one of five ingredients in the Smoke Blend that I mentioned before:
--- Quote from: Sparks on August 04, 2020, 01:42:24 am ---
--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/product-page/smoke-blend ---Our Smoke Blend is an impressive blend of native herbs that were all gathered in the Californian sacred mountains. Smooth, bold, aroma that get's you naturally uplifted. If you enjoy smoking, this will be a great addition to help you to cut back on tobacco.
Use this sacred herb to do rituals & prayers. This blend is inspired by the Native Americans and Shamanic wisdom of the past.
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--- Quote from: https://www.wildlifeherbs.com/product-page/yerba-santa-dried-herbs-2-oz ---Yerba Santa is known as "Gum Weed," …
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So, what is Yerba Santa, generally speaking?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_santa
Of those mentioned there, this is the most likely candidate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriodictyon_californicum
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