Densmore, Frances

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How Indians use Wild Plants

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.

How Indians use wild plants for food, medicine, and crafts

1974
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.
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