Chris Kavelin
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125 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 28 Jun
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The most critical battle of the century.
It was so rough and choppy that they would have nausea and seasickness and would be basically rendered incapacitated to fight.
So we actually had medicines that we were using for seasickness that we got from Europe, but that supply had run out.
So the generals put off D-Day until they could fix this problem.
Australia let the allies know we actually have a plan that might solve this problem.
We may have been defeated if it wasn't for this Aboriginal knowledge.
I was really blessed that both my mom and my dad worked with First Nations peoples around the United States, or Turtle Island, as a lot of Native Americans call it.
And at one period, I lived on the Wind River Native Reservation in Wyoming, which is Arapaho and Shoshone tribes.
Some of the main work that I've been doing is tracing pharmaceuticals back to Indigenous communities, and then I go to them to let them know that they've made that contribution.
And then the aunties will usually ask me to do lots of other things outside my skill set once I arrive.
So a lot of my work is way outside my educational field.
Well, actually, when I was at University of Sydney doing my master's in research in environmental ethics, I was doing a chapter on some practical applications for policy and law.
And in that final chapter, I stumbled across this kind of obscure but widely accepted citation that 77% of all plant-related medicines come from indigenous peoples.
And I was really shocked when I found that out.
Okay, well, the Latin name is Duboisia or D-U-B-O-S-I-A, which evidently I don't know how to say either.
And the common name of the tree is the corkwood tree.
I wouldn't have turned my head if I'm walking past.
It just looked like an ordinary kind of shrub or low level tree.
You know, it just wasn't something amazing.
It just had pretty green leaves, you know, but
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