The uses of plants - for food, medicine, for arts, crafts, and dyeing - among the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota and Wisconsin show the great extent to which they understood and utilized natural resources. In this book those traditions are captured, providing a wealth of new material for those interested in natural food, natural cures and native crafts.
An unabridged republication of an article from the "Forty-fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1926-1927," which details the use of nearly two hundred plants for food, natural cures, and native crafts.