Fresh Banana Leaves — An Indigenous Approach To Science : Short Wave Dr. Jessica Hernandez's new book examines the role of displacement — Indigenous peoples like her father, who was displaced ...

Made from twine and banana tree leaves, a banana-leaf ball can be as small as a softball or as large as a soccer ball, and is used as a homemade replacement for manufactured sports balls among ...

During the civil war in El Salvador that began in the 1970s, an injured Victor Hernandez hid from falling bombs beneath the fronds of a banana tree. The child soldier, a member of the Maya Ch ...