People & Plants

People & Plant
Project Dragonfly

People depend on plants for nearly everything, including food, clothing, and shelter. In these pages you will learn about how indigenous peoples from around the world have used plants.

An ethnobotanist lives with a different culture of people to learn how they use plants. Ten-year-old Gabrielle Plotkin interviews her father, ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin, and discovers how people in the Amazon use plants in their everyday lives.

Tirio Indian kids from the Amazon use plants for everything from making boats from giant leaves to painting pets with the fruit of the lipstick tree. Meet some amazing kids from the Amazon.

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