Melanated History 365:
Creole Traiteurs 🌿🌱
For centuries in Louisiana, Africans, Creoles of Color, and Indigenous Peoples innately innerstood the healing properties of plants & nature.
Due to forced indoctrination, they synced their Indigenous healing practices with the Catholic religion.
#BHM
Creole Traiteurs 🌿🌱
For centuries in Louisiana, Africans, Creoles of Color, and Indigenous Peoples innately innerstood the healing properties of plants & nature.
Due to forced indoctrination, they synced their Indigenous healing practices with the Catholic religion.
#BHM
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Traiteurs were men and women, especially in rural areas.
Traditionally, the prayers, rituals, healing methods, and traditions were passed down by a family member/kinship of the opposite sex, and praises were given to GOD, not the traiteur.
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He then taught my Aunt Celestine and so on 🕯️…
“They called him Tea-Man 'cause he was a traiteur & made all different types of teas.
He treated all people, Black and white,” Great Uncle A. said.
Traiteurs in South Louisiana faced persecution, arrest, public humiliation, & imprisonment.
Today's traiteurs may choose to be contemporary or traditional, orthodox or unorthodox we have a choice.
#CreoleStudies