Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only basket weavers left in the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, holds a piece of river cane in Louisiana’s Kisatchie National Forest Rose Fisher Greer, one of the only ...
ASHEVILLE - A local land trust and conservation group is embarking on a mission to bring native river cane back to the French Broad River — a project to both restore traditions and protect from ...
To practice her craft, Greer needs river cane. For that, she has to go into Kisatchie National Forest, and she’s the only person in her tribe willing to make the journey. At one patch just off the ...