Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science

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A lot of settlers have lost their relationships with nature. They view nature as commodities without understanding that some of these natural resources mean something else to many people, aside from economic value. Banana leaves are the traditional part of Asian, Hispanic cuisines, and Caribbean cultures. The green color fresh banana leaves have a special ability to add mouthwatering flavor to cooked rice. Also, its greenish look adds a colorful setting to the serving plate. I was expecting to learn more about what I, as a white person living on indigenous land, could do to “heal indigenous landscapes through indigenous sciences.” But I didn’t get that. I recognize it is not the responsibility of every POC to educate white people on what we need to do to support communities of color. However, based on the book description that’s what I was expecting. I was eager to learn how I could play an active role in decolonizing environmentalism but I don’t feel like I gained that knowledge. At the end of chapter 5 Dr. Hernandez asks reflective questions to urge us to think about how we can help indigenous communities. I just remember being like, what? That’s why I’m reading this book? it truly pains me to rate this book so low. i was SO excited to read this--i've been looking for writing on this topic for a few months--and instead, i found it to mostly be about how indigenous voices, experience, and knowledge should be central in discussions about land use. however, the thesis kept jumping around and so did the content. in the chapter about indigenous food, the story suddenly switches to the Jan 6 Capitol Riots and how there can’t be a comparison between them and the Banana Republics of Latin American history. the sudden diversion to geopolitical content really caught me off guard.

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Do not store any other items on the banana leaves. It can be caused to fragile the leaves when frozen. Tip 2# Preserve banana leaves using the refrigerator

Tip 2# Preserve banana leaves using the refrigerator

Before going for the preserving techniques, you should remove the damaged parts. So, use a clean knife and cut crashed pieces. You cannot preserve the whole banana leaf as it is. So, cut the leaf using scissors. Then you can fold the leaf pieces. Melissa’s Banana Leaves are large with a solid dark green color and clipped edges. They give off a wonderful, subtle sweetness, adding their flavor to the foods that are wrapped in them. Use these leaves to barbecue, boil, bake, or broil a variety of sweet and savory foods. Melissa’s Banana Leaves range from six to eight feet in length and up to two feet in width and are carefully folded and rolled for shipment. Because of their large size, whole banana leaves are commonly used to wrap a whole pig for roasting. In addition, the leaves can be used in many ways for festive decorations. Overlap whole leaves on a table for an eye-catching tropical table covering! This quote really speak to me as I very much agree with it. If humans as a population were more sustainable then conservation would not be that big of an issue. That being said though, she calls conservation a western construct, which I do not believe it is. Conservation is something that needs to take place worldwide, it is not just the Americas that is struggling. Therefore, even if we were not overexploiting our lands here, that does not mean that countries in Asia or Europe wouldn’t be struggling like they are today.

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To speed up the process, you can use a towel or tissue. They will absorb the excess water and dry it out immediately. In Fresh Banana Leaves, Jessica Hernandez weaves personal, historical, and environmental narratives to offer us a passionate and powerful call to increase our awareness and to take responsibility for caring for Mother Earth.” A must-read for anyone interested in Indigenous environmental perspectives.” There aren’t really spoilers but I will use quotes so if you don’t want this book spoiled at all then don’t read**Do you want to preserve the whole leaf? Then take a whole leaf and gradually add it to the hot water. Or else, you can keep banana leaves in the sink and turn on the tap. The leaves will wash off faster under the running water. the ideas were great. there was a great book somewhere in here, but hernandez was absolutely failed by the publishing house's editing team--to the point where i wonder if they even afforded her one. This is a convenient way to keep your banana leaves fresh for a long time. Believe me; you can keep them at their original state for six months. Hernandez: Somebody who still has their ancestral practices, their cultural traditions, their kinships with their people, whether they’re displaced or not, and are native to that region, or to that place that they can call home.

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Westerners, [Dr. Hernandez] writes, fall short on including Indigenous people in environmental dialogues and deny them the social and economic resources necessary to recover from ‘land theft, cultural loss, and genocide’ and to prepare for the future effects of climate change.” SANDY GRANDE, professor of political science and Native American and Indigenous studies, University of Connecticut Take out the banana leaf while it has a greenish appearance. Do not try to remove the banana leaf with your hand. It will burn your hand. So, take them out using a appropriate tool.The rigid structure of the leaf will get soft and flexible while you are dipping the leaf in hot water.

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In certain areas of Thailand, most notably the southern regions, Banana Leaf features high on the list of staple ingredients used in the preparation of local dishes. One distinct difference between Banana Leaves and other ingredients, is that the Banana Leaf is most often used as a wrapping or container for the completed item of food. For example, they may be used to wrap fish before it is barbequed or to hold rice which is being steamed or baked. Using Banana Leaf in this way also adds a flavour and aroma to the food during the cooking stage. I personally have always taken the view that although some invasive species are bad, they aren’t all terrible and could actually be useful in certain contexts. While ecological destruction has intensified, many of the approaches intended to minimize cataclysmic harm continue to emerge from the Global North. What has long been ignored are the practices and world views that Indigenous peoples have with our nonhuman relatives. Fresh Banana Leaves offers seeds—through the form of lived experiences and historic practices that come from the author’s own ancestors and relatives. We are invited to take heed, to be part of rebuilding a world that is more dignified and responsive to our environment and nonhuman living relations. Our collective futures hinge upon us abiding.” I particularly loved how Hernandez interweaves her research and reflections with stories of her family (especially her father and grandmother) and interviews. There is a beautiful flow throughout this book and it is just incredibly rich with many layers. This book is great for every one interested in ecological justice, restoration (ot healing as Hernandez prefers) and the climate crisis (and shouldn't that be somehow all of us?). Despite the undeniable fact that Indigenous communities are among the most affected by climate devastation, Indigenous science is nowhere to be found in mainstream environmental policy or discourse. And while holistic land, water, and forest management practices born from millennia of Indigenous knowledge systems have much to teach all of us, Indigenous science has long been ignored, otherized, or perceived as “soft”–the product of a systematic, centuries-long campaign of racism, colonialism, extractive capitalism, and delegitimization.An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and offers Indigenous models informed by case studies, personal stories, and family histories that center the voices of Latin American women and land protectors. I found this book repetitive (with the same examples and explanations used in multiple chapters) and in need of more citations. I know the author discusses (twice) that she doesn't believe that her personal experience as an Indigenous woman needs citations, and I agree! However, there were statistics and references to reports or historical events throughout the book that weren't cited at all. To me, the writing needed an editor to help tighten things up and make sure things flowed together. Some of the chapters felt very separate from each other (as though they were written as individual chapters out of context of the whole book and then stitched together in manuscript format), which could explain the repetitiveness of parts of it. It's true that Hernandez doesn't directly romanticize the Indigenous cultures that she comes from. She calls out xenophobia in Mexico and the ways in which her cultures have internalized colonizer concepts of misogyny and queer-phobia. At the same time, the deepest she digs into the ways in which her cultures practice science (ostensibly the point of the book) is that they consider all natural phenomena to be their relatives. This is not revelatory; this is a sound bite and a t-shirt. Leaving it at that practically invites people who have no acquaintance with Indigenous science to romanticize and commodify it. Adding to the problem, Hernandez puts Desmond Tutu's quote about swapping the land for the Bible, along with less well attributed truisms, into the mouth of her wise grandmother; and she translates interviews with her father into English nearly literally, making him sound ignorant and fractured in ways I'm sure he didn't in the original. Both of these things further contribute to the tendency to cast her Indigenous relatives as Noble Savages. However, do not keep the leaf for more than 30 seconds. It will cause to convert leaf color greenish to brownish.