(Ch.3-4) Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice

Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice by Mark Plotkin Chapters 3-4

Chapter 3 - Among the Maroons Suriname was colonized by the British, who first established _______ plantations there in 1651.

Then it was conquered/ceded in a treaty to the Dutch in return for a small parcel of land which is today known as _____________

Who are the Maroons?

Who is Fritz von Troon?

What is a savanna?

Savannahs often have natural fires, touched off by _______ or intentional fires set by _______ How do tribal people diagnose that someone has too much sugar in their blood (diabetes)?

What is harvested from the chicle tree that created a multimillion-dollar business? (today synthetics are instead)

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The gutta-percha tree from Asia is still used today by dentists a filling for ____teeth_________ Where does the name Jaguar Shaman come from?

Chapter 4 – Under the Double Rainbow Plotkin visited the village of Kwamalasamoetoe which was inhabited by _____ different tribes.

How did Plotkin use Saul and Paul in the Bible to convince the chief to allow him to stay?

Ancient Greeks, Asians and Native Americans used willow bark to relieve ______ Plotkin considers the cassava to be the most essential cultivated plant to the Amazonian Indians.

Nutritionally, it is almost pure ________. Cassava contains ______ compounds that can be fatal if eaten. Most tribes have developed ways to process them.

The most important commercial product that is extracted from orchids is _________ The tribe used _______ which was extracted from wood of the ay-ah-e-yah tree to kill the fish so that they were easy to catch. This same chemical is used by the western world as a biodegradable pesticide to kill insects.