World's First Indigenous Ethnobotanist Saves His People's Healing Knowledge

Hemerson Dantas dos Santos Pataxó HãHãHãi became the world's first published Indigenous ethnobotanist, working alongside 19 elders to catalog 175 medicinal plants and ancestral healing practices before that knowledge disappeared forever.

His groundbreaking study ensures centuries of Indigenous wisdom will survive for future generations in Brazil's Caramuru/Paraguassu territory.