Earth Curative

11/14/2025

Every November, we honor by celebrating the knowledge, resilience, and creativity of Native communities. Featured here is a 1932 print by Awa Tsireh (San Ildefonso Pueblo), whose paintings helped shape the Pueblo art movement of the 20th century.

A JSTOR Daily roundup explores topics like Native foodways, the roots of U.S. democracy in Indigenous governance, and how educators are rethinking how Native history is taught.

Read the full roundup: https://bit.ly/4hL5ZVW

Image: Awa Tsireh (Alfonso Roybal), Circle of Women Dancers in Harvest Festival, 1932. Courtesy Archives & Rare Books Library, University of Cincinnati.

11/14/2025

11/14/2025

South Carolina family and friends!

11/14/2025

This time of year, many people adorn their dinner table or front porch with ornamental squashes. These squashes are native to eastern North America and were domesticated by Native Americans long before they were growing crops like corn or beans. What we know today as ornamental squash and gourds, acorn squash, and crookneck squash began with the domestication of Cucurbita pepo around 7,000 years ago.

Photo by BarbaraLN, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0

11/13/2025

11/13/2025

How do we get the different aurora colors? It has to do with what altitude the atoms are at. Higher altitude is red, while lower is often green.

11/13/2025

Which one do you grow?

Not every “Christmas cactus” is actually one. It might be Thanksgiving… or even Easter.
Here’s how to tell which one you have.

11/13/2025

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

~ Anne Frank

11/13/2025