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Judy Bluehorse Skelton
Judy BlueHorse Skelton , (Nez Perce/Cherokee), is an educator and herbalist who shares her knowledge of medicinal plants and healing at conferences, educational institutions and workshops. For 13 years she has served as the Cultural Student Support Specialist with Portland Public Schools’ Title VII Indian Education program, creating curriculum and leading activities focusing on the traditional and contemporary uses of native plants for food, medicine, ceremony, and developing healthy lifeways. In 2006, Judy was named Indian Educator of the Year by the Oregon Indian Education Association (OIEA). She guest lectures at the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, and for ten years worked in their clinic’s medicinary. At PSU she co-teaches the capstone, Environmental Education Through Native American Lenses, and Multicultural Education and Native American Issues in the Native American Studies department. Judy served as co-chair on the NACA (Native American Community Advisory) board for 3 years and currently services on the Wellness Policy Advisory Board for Portland Public Schools.

Judy wrote and recorded the Health & Healing segments as a regular feature in the eight 1-hour radio programs produced by Wisdom of the Elders, Inc. which have aired nationwide on Public Broadcasting and AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite). In 2006 Judy wrote and recorded segments entitled Sacred Landscapes, for sixteen 1-hour radio programs on Native Perspectives on Lewis & Clark, for the National Endowment for the Humanities. Judy is finishing her masters in education in the Leadership in Ecology, Culture and Learning program at Portland State University.

In our time together, we will explore and strengthen our relationship with the gifts of the plants and cycles of the earth to create beauty and healing for all our relations. Distillation of aromatic oils will be demonstrated and we will make an herbal medicinal body powder appropriate for baby, parent, elder, pets, or home environment use. An herbal tea will be served.

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