The Native Americans herbal dispensatory HANDBOOK - The medicine-making guide to native medicinal plants and their uses question

Philip Kuckunniw may or may not be a real person. He is likely a scammer pumping out books to make a quick buck until someone discovers his scheme. Somehow he self-published 4 books in a six month period, yet I never heard of him, see him at an herbal conference, can't find him in any Facebook forum, cannot find him on the web even though he claims to be a journalist. And he is a sloppy writer.

He severely plagiarized my book Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate (one of the 4 books he churned out) and I am taking legal action about it. His rephrasing of my work is often tortured, making him sound ignorant, uneducated, incomprehensible, or quaint on occasion. I have not checked this “Herbal Dispensatory” or his third or fourth books for plagiarism, since they cover different topics, but my question to you is, does any of his work seem familiar from other peoples' work? If you can find where he is stealing his work from, report him. If this is your first book on herbs, beware that he may know nothing.

John Kallas
Institute for the Study of Edible Wild Plants & Other Foragables
Author of: Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate