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Coming out of the book is bearberry, best known by one of its Indian names, kinikinnik/ Its Ojibwe name is saga-ko-minagunj, "berry with spikes on it". The leaves were smoked and used as headache remedies. A tea made of dried leaves had verious medical uses. Berries, which survive all winter in the snow, were emergency food, and were used to make a tea. Explore Discover native medical and food uses, and chemical composition of this plant by fooling around with the databases, here.
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Plants in Hawaiian Culture;
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Plants of Old Hawaii;
Lois Lucas; Paperback; (Special Order)
Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants : A Historical Survey With Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes;
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Amazonian Ethnobotanical Dictionary;
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American Samoa;
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By the Prophet of the Earth: Ethnobotany of the Pima;
L. S. M. Curtin; Paperback; (Special Order)
Culture and Environment in the Domain of the Calusa (Monograph / Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, University of Florida, 1);
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Delphina Cuero : Her Autobiography : An Account of Her Last Years and Her Ethnobotanic Contributions (Ballena Press Anthropological Papers, No. 37);
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Economic Botany of Kiowa Indians;
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Plants, People, and Paleoecology: Biotic Communities and Aboriginal Plant Usage in Illinois;
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Pre-Columbian Plant Migration: Papers Presented at the Pre-Columbian Plant Migration Symposium 44th International Congress of Americanists manchester;
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Ethnobotany in the Neotropics : Proceedings (Advances in Economic Botany, Vol 1);
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The Ethnobotany of Chinchero, an Andean Community in Southern Peru;
Christine Franquemont, et al; Paperback; (Special Order)
Ethnobotany of the Chacobo Indians, Beni, Bolivia (Advances in Economic Botany, Vol 4);
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The Ethnobotany of Tonga : The Plants, Their Tongan Names, and Their Uses (Bishop Museum Bulletin in Botany, No. 2);
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Footprints of the Forest : Ka'Apor Ethnobotany- The Historical Ecology of Plant Utilization by an Amazonian People (Biology and Resource Management I);
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Foraging and Farming in the Eastern Woodlands (The Ripley P. Bullen);
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Gathering the Desert.; Gary Paul Nabhan;
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Green World : An Introduction to Plants and People;
Richard M Klein; Hardcover; (Special Order)
Handbook of Northeastern Indian Medicinal Plants (Bioactive Plants, 3);
James A. Duke; Hardcover;
The Hawaiian Planter : His Plants, Methods and Areas of Cultivation (Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 161) Vol 1;
E. S. Craighill Handy; Paperback;
Huastec Mayan Ethnobotany;
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Hunting by Prehistoric Horticulturalists in the American Southwest (The Evolution of the North American Indians);
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Prehistoric Agriculture in the Central Plains (University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology, 16);
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The Saguaro Forest (Western Horizons);
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Mayan Healer;
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The Sweet Potato and Oceania : An Essay in Ethnobotany (Bulletin Series: No.236);
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New Directions in the Study of Plants and People : Research Contributions from the Institute of Economic Botany (Advances in Economic Botany, Vol 8);
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New Light on Early Farming : Recent Developments in Paleoethnobotany;
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Paleoethnobotany : A Handbook of Procedures;
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People of the Desert and Sea;
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People, Plants, and Landscapes : Studies in Paleoethnobotany;
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Plants Used As Curatives by Certain Southeastern Tribes;
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Plants, Agriculture, and Human Society;
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La'Au Hawai'I : Traditional Hawaiian Uses of Plants;
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Life and Lore of Illinois Wildflowers;
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Limu-Ethnobotanical Study of Some Hawaiian Seaweeds;
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Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants;
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Agaves of Continental North America;
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American Indian food and lore;
Carolyn J. Niethammer; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
American Medical Ethnobotany : A Reference Dictionary;
Daniel E. Moerman; Textbook Binding (Hard to Find)
Bellamy's New world : a botanical history of America;
David J. Bellamy; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Common Edible and Useful Plants of the East and Midwest;
Muriel Sweet; Paperback (Hard to Find)
Common Edible and Useful Plants of the East and Midwest;
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The ethno-botany of the Coahuilla Indians of southern California;
David Prescott Barrows; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
The ethno-botany of the Maya;
Ralph Loveland Roys; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island;
Nancy J. Turner; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ethnobotany of the Hopi;
Alfred F. Whiting; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ethnobotany of the Menomini Indians ; Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians;
Huron Herbert Smith; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island;
Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
The Ethnobotany of the Waimiri Atroari Indians of Brazil;
Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ethnopharmacologic search for psychoactive drugs;
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Healers of the Andes : Kallawaya Herbalists and Their Medicinal Plants;
Joseph W. Bastien, Eleanor Forfang Stauffer; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
Healing herbs of the upper Rio Grande;
L. S. M. Curtin; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Indian Names for Plants and Animals Among Californian and Other Western North American Tribes. Comp by Robert F. Heizer (Ballena Press );
Clinton Hort Merriam; Paperback (Hard to Find)
Indigenous Knowledge Systems : The Cultural Dimension of Development (The International Library of Indigenous Knowledge and Development);
D. Michael Warren, et al; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
Jilji : life in the Great Sandy desert;
Pat Lowe; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Man and a Half : Essays in Pacific Anthropology and Ethnobiology in Honour of Ralph Bulmer (Memoir No. 48);
Ralph Bulmer (Editor), Andrew Pawley (Editor); Paperback (Hard to Find)
Man and his foods: studies in the ethnobotany of nutrition; contemporary, primitive, and prehistoric non-European diets; papers; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Medicinal Plants of Native America;
Daniel E. Moerman; Paperback (Hard to Find)
Medicinal Uses Plants Indian Tribes of Nevada (Bioactive Plants, V. 1);
Percy Train, et al; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
Mother earth's mercantile : plants of the Four Corners area and their uses through time;
Elizabeth M. Wheeler; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
The Nature and status of ethnobotany;
Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Nature lore of the Maori;
Gordon Ell; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Neglected crops : 1492 from a different perspective;
Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Nga Mahi Maori o te wao nui a Tane : contributions to an International Workshop on Ethnobotany, Te Rehua Marae, Christchurch, New Zealand, 22-26 February 1988; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Plants and the Blackfoot;
A. Johnston; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Plants of the Gods Origins of Hallucinogenic Use 2P)Schultes,;
Richard Schultes; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
Plants, man and the land in the Vilcanota Valley of Peru;
Daniel W. Gade; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
The Prehistory of the Tehuacan Valley. Vol 3;
Tehuacan Archaeological-Botanical Project.; Textbook Binding (Hard to Find)
Principles of Tzeltal plant classification; an introduction to the botanical ethnography of a Mayan-speaking people of highland Chiapas;
Brent Berlin; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Ritual Enemas and Snuffs in the Americas;
Peter Smet; Paperback (Hard to Find)
The Sacred Mushroom Seeker (Historical Ethno and Economic Botany Series Vol 4);
Thomas J. Riedlinger (Editor); Paperback
Sacred narcotic plants of the new world Indians; an anthology of texts from the sixteenth century to date;
Hedwig Schleiffer; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Santa Ysabel ethnobotany;
Ken Hedges; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Seed to civilization; the story of man's food;
Charles Bixler Heiser; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
Tanaina plantlore, Dena'ina k'et'una;
Priscilla Russell Kari; Unknown Binding (Hard to Find)
A Treasury of American Indian Herbs : Their Lore and Their Use for Food, Drugs, and Medicine;
Virginia Scully; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
Tule Technology : Northern Paiute Uses of Marsh Resources Nevada (Smithsonian Folklife Studies, 6);
Catherine S. Fowler; Hardcover (Hard to Find)
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