Delta Rootz - Solidarity Medicine Making Collective

04/07/2025

We are excited to announce that Freida Big Road will be joining us tomorrow night for our Ohunkankan Storytelling Series! She will share a teaching on Ap̄e hiƞṡma (mullein) and Waḣc̄azi (sunflower).

Listen in tomorrow at 6 PM Mountain Time! This virtual series of Plant Sovereignty teachings will run every Tuesday and Thursday through April 17! We are sharing these teachings as part of our Lakota Advocacy Center to connect our people with our knowledge bearers!

We will draw for door prizes every session and regular attendees will have extra entries for our grand prizes!
Meeting admissions close at 6:30.

Register for the online storytelling series here: https://thundervalley-org.zoom.us/meeting/register/-Fz2-TdMQ-iAZ6J7KrUGeA #/registration

10/09/2024

Support our mutual aid response to Hurricane Helene.

Please drop salves, syrups, elixirs and tinctures at Miss Anne's Maypop Herb Shop. They will be delivered to Meschiya who’s coordinating distribution in her Asheville area community.

Meschiya Lake also has a Venmo to send support.

Thanks y’all

09/19/2023

Opening Miss Anne's Maypop Herb Shop today!! Yay! I haven’t worked a shift aaaalll summer.

We’re opening back up on Mondays and Tuesdays - that’s right, we’re Poppin Every Single Day!

07/21/2022

Last Sunday, we joined a mutual aid effort to deliver fresh fruit, veggies and herbal medicines to tribal folks down the bayou including Pointe-au-Chien and Isle de Jean Charles.

These tribal communities are on the frontlines of climate change and represent some of the first climate refugees. They’re supposed to be relocated via a HUD grant into a community of their design which has now gotten whittled down to basically an ndn housing project common across most ndn reservations today. So many, many families remain on the bayou.

They are the descendants of Biloxi Chitimacha and Choctaw who fled the Trail of Tears and traveled through the swamps and bayous as far as they could they arrived on thr Gulf of Mexico. They were so well hidden and isolated that it wasn’t until the 1930’s that they were discovered on Isle de Jean Charles. (I hope I remembered that historical timeline correctly.)

“It took an Act of Congress to get….” Is an old saying in ndn country that speaks to the sheer amount of govt bureaucracy it takes to get anything done on our behalf.

Recently these tribal communities along the Louisiana Gulf Coast experienced a state-level ”act of Congress” when the Governor signed legislation to fund French language classes for tribal middle and high schools. These tribes have their own dialect of French which is their first language. So the fight for language classes in their dialect had been hard fought.

To officially commemorate this epic moment, the Governor flew in to the tribal community via helicopter to meet with Tribal leaders and sign the bill into law. There were many wonderful photos taken of this historic event. Unfortunately, no one was wearing a mask.

The following day, news across the state was that the Governor tested positive for Covid. Many tribal members found out they were exposed to Covid through news sources and soon the pandemic began to spread throughout the community.

There was an opportunity to share our Covid care packages with them so we hit the hit highway and headed down the bayou.

This was possible with relationships we developed through our participation in the Mutual Aid Roundup here in Bvlbancha hosted by Bvlbancha Liberation Radio. These gatherings of mutual aid efforts, many that came out of Hurricane Ida, happen every three weeks since this Spring to help us collectively prepare for hurricane season and coordinate efforts.

Looking forward to serving additional tribal communities in the coming weeks with this biweekly food run and deepening relationships with tribal members and expanding our reach locally.

We also saw horses and dolphins!! I hope you can see them in the photos!

🐴 🐬 🐊 🦟 🌱🌸🌻

07/21/2022

Rupa Marya says, “If you’re wondering why it seems like everyone has Covid right now it’s because we are in the midst of the worst surge but you would know it. Why? Because underneath all their window dressing, Democrats are just as ruthless and derelict of their duties as Trump. We have followed his playbook (don’t test, don’t tell), and let the virus spread without mitigation. Our grandchildren will ask if we had lost our common sense. We have. ”

If you’re wondering why it seems like everyone has Covid right now it’s because we are in the midst of the worst surge but you would know it. Why? Because underneath all their window dressing, Democrats are just as ruthless and derelict of their duties as Trump. We have followed his playbook (don’t test, don’t tell), and let the virus spread without mitigation. Our grandchildren will ask if we had lost our common sense. We have.

07/12/2022

🌞we built a solar generator!!

Nakė nula waun - always ready for anything, anytime.

07/12/2022

We know how to build solar generators!!

03/14/2022

We pressed, bottled and labeled over 5 gallons of elderberry elixirs on Friday - it was awesome!

Our elderberry plus elixir is a powerful immune booster. A little goes a long way.

This was our first time using this big fruit press and were so fortunate to have a visitor experienced with this rad tool who helped us set it up and give us a quick training and was one his merry way!

It began to rain as we ended our pressing so we quickly pulled our operation inside and it rained so hard and soon the hail came.

And for several minutes we all stood silently watching the rising waters in the streets of Bulbancha, listening to the storm.

01/30/2022

Didn’t really have a plan for our workday and ended up mixing and bottling two extract blends for our care packages, started another batch of elderberry elixir, got our Wild Cherry Bark extract going, topped off our fire cider with some beautiful turmeric and made a gallon of medicinal mushroom honey with a blend of 10 powerful mushroom powders.

We’re sooo grateful for the beautiful bear root that was gifted to us. This plant relative is a part of our elderberry syrup and elixir recipes and will help hundreds of people through our care packages.

01/23/2022

We finished off the week with a flurry of big batches of herbal remedies. It was freezing cold for us in that open warehouse space where we work. But we were bundled up and busy so it actually felt really good.

We shared the workday with folks who are building an actual boat/vessel, it’s called a Float Lab, and part of floating adaptations project as a response to climate change. We’ve been invited to make our medicine on the boat down the bayou when she’s ready!

So Friday we blended several beautiful herbal extracts into one huge blend in the five gallon bucket and are bottling and labeling for distribution.

One of our herbalists brought her super cool, custom made and cute tincture press and pressed our wildcherry bark and mimosa flower and bark extracts.

Last summer, we were invited to harvest two fallen cherry trees in the Abita Springs area. Three of us spent two very hot and sultry days peeling the outer bark off large logs of wild Cherry, then scraped the inner bark into long strips and processed into smaller pieces and brewer a few gallons of fresh Wild Cherry Bark extract.

All of our extract blends since last summer are blended with Wild Cherry Bark that came from that invitation to harvest. At the time, we had no way of knowing what an impact that opportunity would bring, we were just excited to harvest - I can still smell the fresh bark when I think about it.

We sure had a good time, too, which included swimming and gallons of fresh spring water.

It was freezing on Friday though and stayed warm by staying super busy. We started five gallons fire cider, 5 gallons of elderberry elixir, finished the chest rub, and boxed up some care packages.

We also bottled up the last three gallons of fire cider from that huge 50 gallon brew we made last spring - that lasted a whole year!!

Collectively, we’re working on skills sharing opportunities for our crew of herbalists.

So stay tuned, be well and be safe out there y’all!

01/13/2022

01/02/2022

New Orleans, LA - Anne White Hat (Sicangu Lakota) is the new owner of Maypop Community Herb Shop, a small business in the Bywater area specializing in medicinal herbs, culinary spices and handmade her