ELWYN B. ROBINSON DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
CHESTER FRITZ LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA
GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA 58202

GLINDA CRAWFORD PAPERS

COLLECTION: OGL # 1320 (addition)

DATES: 1998-2000

SIZE: .75 linear feet

INTRODUCTION

ACQUISITION: This addition to the Glinda Crawford Papers was deposited into the Orin G. Libby Manuscript Collection by Glinda Crawford, Department of Sociology, UND, on October 22, 2002 (Acc. # 2002-2585).

ACCESS: Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Department of Special Collections.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This addition to the Glinda Crawford Papers consists of various articles written by Crawford focusing on the beauty, health benefits and preservation of Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower. Echinacea is a perennial plant that is native to America. Echinacea primarily inhabits the prairies and dry plains of North America, especially the United States. The area that Echinacea calls home ranges form the southern regions of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba all the way down into Texas. Echinacea was commonly used by Native Americans in poulticies, mouthwashes and teas. In the early 1990's most Americans were introduced to Echinacea and its healing abilities. Echinacea can be used to treat or prevent colds, influenza, mononucleosis, ear infections, burns, insect bites and hives. Due to Echinacea's extreme popularity, herbal companies started to harvest Echinacea from its native prairies. With rapid digging of Echinacea and the threat of extinction, Glinda Crawford became an activist trying to bring awareness and an end to the public harvesting of Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower

Her works were published in such magazines as Native Directions, North Dakota Quarterly and North Dakota Outdoors. She and four individuals presented a poster entitled "Echinacea: From Poaching to Protection and Promise" to the North Dakota Chapter of the Wildlife Society in February 1999. Due to Crawford's enthusiasm for Echinacea and its preservation, Daniel Glick used Crawford's experience and her crusade to protect this rare flower to write his article "The Root of All Evil", which was published in Women Outdoors in the Summer of 1999. Crawford's expertise on Echinacea made her the perfect Thesis Chair for an Honors student named Monika Heinbaugh. Heinbaugh focused her Thesis, with the guidance of Crawford, on informing the world and especially North Dakota about the crisis of endangerment of Echinacea.

The collection also contains local and regional newspaper articles and facts about Echinacea. The folders in this section focus on Echinacea products, cultivation of Echinacea, Botanical Information, information from theWorld Wide Web and Echinacea Merchants' Contact Letters. The folder titled "Echinacea Source Book" contains various facts about Echinacea, newspaper articles and information on how an individual can help save Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower.

BOX AND FOLDER INVENTORY

Box 1
Folder
Articles and Presentations

26. Echinacea: A Return to Earth Medicine or, The Case of the Vanishing Purple Coneflower, Poster Presentation for "Prairie Ecology" combined meetings of ND & MN Wildlife Society, February 11, 1998
27. Herbal Sales Threaten Purple Coneflower & Prairies (Native Directions, Spring 1998)
28. The Purple Coneflower Led Me Home (North Dakota Quarterly, June 11, 1998)
29. Purple Prairie Products (North Dakota Outdoors - July 1998)
30. Just Under Our Noses: Herbal Sales Threaten Purple Coneflower & Northern Prairies, Yet Provide a Glimpse of Hope (North Dakota Outdoors - August 1998)
31. Echinacea, Prairies, and Rural Life on Fire...Help! A North Dakota Report (United Plant Savers Newsletter, September 1998)
32. Echinacea: From Poaching to Protection and Promise (Poster Presented to N.D. Chapter of Wildlife Society, February 1999)
33. View From the Social Science
34. At Last Protection for the Beautiful "Purple Coneflower (Grand Forks Herald, March 1999)
35. The Root of Evil (Dan Glick - Women Outside, Summer 1999)
36. Presentations and Handouts on Echinacea
37. Correspondence and Interviews
38. "Women Healing the Earth" - Card design by Crawford (2000)

Subject Files

39. Monika Heinbaugh's Thesis on Echinacea
40. Echinacea Products
41. Echinacea Cultivation
42. Native Use of Echinacea
43. Threat to the Wild: The Disappearance of Echinacea
44. Echinacea: Botanical Information and Distribution
45. Echinacea Merchants' Contact Letter
46. World Wide Web Information on Echinacea
47. Political Action Against Harvesting Echinacea
48. Articles on the Medical Properties and Uses of Echinacea
49. Echinacea Activist's Source book
50. Local/Regional Newspaper Articles on Echinacea

SEPARATIONS RECORD

Two videotapes were separated and placed in the Videotape collection.
V 1655: WDAZ TV Channel 8 segment on Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower. Dr. Glinda Crawford of the UND Department of Sociology is interviewed: Oct 1998
V 1656: KVLY TV Channel 11 segment on Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower. Dr. Glinda Crawford of the UND Department of Sociology is interviewed.

One audio tape was separated and placed in the Audio Tape Collection.
V 2056: Toby Talk, Radio host Toby Baker interviews Glinda Crawford, Department of Sociology, about Echinacea, the Purple Coneflower: June 16, 1998.

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