Native American Medicines of the Southeast by Award-Winner Mark Warren

Hosted by the Dunwoody Preservation Trust. This program is free to attend, but a $5 donation is recommended.

Native American Medicines of the Southeast – a lecture and photo presentation

The diverse flora of the Southeast once provided everything that was needed by the original inhabitants. Our modern day ignoring of these gifts is what separates us from a life of truly interacting with nature on an intimate level. And that loss has, no doubt, contributed to our careless handling of the land. The good news is that this trend can be reversed, one person at a time. This program covers plants that may be used for common ailments, ranging from minor cuts, stings, head lice, and rashes to gall stones, dysentery, nausea, and skin cancer. Techniques for field preparations are included.

Mark Warren Bio:
Mark Warren is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia.

At Medicine Bow, his nationally renowned wilderness school in the Southern Appalachians, he teaches nature classes and primitive survival skills. The National Wildlife Federation named him Georgia’s Conservation Educator of the Year in 1980. In 1998 Mark became the U.S. National Champion in whitewater canoeing, and in 1999 he won the World Championship Longbow title.

Warren has written extensively about nature for local and national magazines. He lectures on Native American history and survival skills, and Western frontier history presenting at museums and cultural centers around the country. He is a member of The Historical Novel Society, the Wild West History Association, and Western Writers of America. He is the recipient of the 2024 New Mexico – Arizona Book Award for his historical novel on Billy the Kid, A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney. His Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey trilogy was honored by WWA’s Spur Awards, The Historical Novel Society, and the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Warren is a 2022 Georgia Author of the Year recipient for his book Song of the Horseman (Finalist, Literary Fiction). Indigo Heaven and The Westering Trail Travesties are Will Rogers Medallion Award winners.

Warren has eighteen traditionally published books: from Lyons Press, Two Winters in a Tipi and Secrets of the Forest, from Two Dot, Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, from Speaking Volumes, Indigo Heaven, Song of the Horseman, Last of the Pistoleers, A Tale Twice Told, Moon of the White Tears, and A Copperhead Summer, and from Wolfpack, The Westering Trail Travesties, A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney, Nate Champion: The Texas Years, and Nate Champion: The Wyoming Years.

For more information on the Dunwoody Preservation Trust and the Donaldson-Bannister Farm, visit their website at https://dunwoodypreservationtrust.org/donaldson.../

For more information about Mark Warren visit his website https://medicinebow.net/

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Donaldson-Bannister Farm, 4831 Chamblee Dunwoody Road, Dunwoody, United States