How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1928
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts

How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1974-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486230198

Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs

Chippewa Customs

Chippewa Customs
Author: Frances Densmore
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 0873511425

An authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Ojibwe people.

A Handbook of Native American Herbs

A Handbook of Native American Herbs
Author: Alma R. Hutchens
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 271
Release: 1992-11-10
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0834824221

The author of ‘the bible on herbalism’ returns with a portable guide on North American medicinal herbs—for the professional and amateur herbalist alike Based on the now-classic reference text Indian Herbalogy of North America, this illustrated pocket guide is the perfect companion for those eager to expand their knowledge of herbal healing. Through detailed descriptions and illustrations, Alma R. Hutchens walks readers through: • 125 of the most useful medicinal herbs found in North America, and their uses • How to create herbal remedies for common ailments • The herbal traditions of North America and other lands Entries include staples of folk medicine such as echinacea and slippery elm as well as common kitchen herbs—from parsley to thyme to pepper—whose tonic and healing properties are less widely known.

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians

Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians
Author: Huron H. Smith
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2020-08-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3752430885

Reproduction of the original: Ethnobotany of the Ojibwe Indians by Huron H. Smith

Living Wild

Living Wild
Author: Alicia Funk
Publisher:
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2013
Genre: Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN: 9780983309208

Survival Skills of the North American Indians

Survival Skills of the North American Indians
Author: Peter Goodchild
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1999
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1569765030

This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.

Wild Edibles of Missouri

Wild Edibles of Missouri
Author: Jan Phillips
Publisher:
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1998
Genre: Cooking (Wild foods)
ISBN: 9781887247184

A guide to locating and preparing wild edible plants growing in Missouri. Each plant has a botanical name attached. The length or season of the flower bloom is listed; where that particular plant prefers to grow; when the plant is edible or ready to be picked, pinched, or dug; how to prepare the wildings; and a warning for possible poisonous or rash-producing plants or parts of plants.--from Preface (p. vi).

Plants of Power

Plants of Power
Author: Alfred Savinelli
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781570671302

Native American Ceremony and the Use of Sacred Plants. This comprehensive guide to the sacred plants traditionally used by Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples presents 14 significant plants, with information on their properties, growing conditions, and medicinal applications (incense cedar, red cedar, copal, juniper, lavender, mugwort, osha, pinon, white sage, desert sage, sweet grass, ceremonial tabacco, red willow bark and yerba santa). Descriptions of Native American ceremonies and rituals in which these plants play a central role are included.