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 ...
It had been more than 100 years since a Catawba Indian had woven a basket from river cane. Teresa Dunlap, a cultural class specialist at the Catawba Reservation in Rock Hill, S.C, proudly held up a ...
Bruno Sagrera, a sixth generation Choctaw farmer is propagating river cane to help bring it back on his urban farm in Abbeville, LA. (March 15, 2024) Rose Fisher Greer and her daughter are the only ...
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 ...