Mary Siisip Geniusz
Self portrait. Courtesy of Wendy Makoons Geniusz Native American (Cree/Metis), Ethnobotany Mary Siisip Geniusz (1948-2016) Mary Siisip Geniusz, born in 1948, was an Oshkaabewis (ceremonial apprentice), and teaching assistant to Keewaydinoquay Peschel, an Anishinaabe medicine woman from Michigan. Geniusz’s heritage was Cree and Métis; her mother was born at the Pas in Manitoba. Because she …