Indigenous Knowledge of Amaranth Survives Colonization

Amaranth has a highly nutritious seed fostered by native communities in the Americas for at least 8000 years. Since the 1970s the plant has been touted by natural health advocates as a near-magical healing plant, but the native history of its cultivation has been left out of that story. Recent networks of indigenous women in Central AMerica and the US Southwest are reviving native tradition around the plant and sharing stories of colonial oppression of Amaranth cultivation and the lengths indigenous communities have gone to to preserve this valuable source of food and healing. Read The Guardian article here.