How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts by Frances Densmore

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How Indians Use Wild Plants
for Food, Medicine, and Crafts
by Frances Densmore

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The varied uses of plants by the Ojibwe indicate the large extent to which they understood and utilized the natural resources of their environment. This text gives botanical names, Ojibwe name and meaning, the portion of the plant used, and the use of the plant. Soft bound volume of 397 pages, with 36 illustrations.

The Table of Contents includes the following:

Foreword
Informals
Phonetics
Introduction
List of plants arranged according to botanical name
List of plants arranged according to common name
List of plants arranged according to native name
Medicinal properties of plants used by the Chippewa
Principal active medicinal constituents of plants used by the Chippewa
Plants as food

List of plants used as food
Making maple sugar
Gathering wild rice
Beverages
Seasonings
Cereals
Vegetables
Fruits and berries

Plants as medicine

Treatment by means of plants
Substances other than vegetable used as remedies
Medical appliances
Surgical treatment and appliances
Dental surgery
Classification of diseases and injuries
List of medical plants and their uses
Works containing lists of plants used medicinally

Plants used in dyes

Process of dyeing
List of plants used in dyes
Mineral substances used in dyes
Formula for dyes

Plants used as charms

List of plants used in charms

Plants used in useful and decorative arts

List of plants
Manner of use

Legend of Winabojo and the birch tree
Legend of Winabojo and the cedar tree
Gathering birch bark and cedar bark
Articles made of birch bark

ISBN: 0-486-23019-8

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