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Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
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Blackfoot Food, Forage
Favorite grass of the buffalo.
McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 277
Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
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Blackfoot Food, Forage
Leaves thought to be a favorite food of the buffalo.
Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 22
Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
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Blackfoot Other, Ceremonial Items
Grass tied by medicine men to horns of the sacred buffalo head used in the Sun Dance ceremony.
McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 277
Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
USDA CANE2
Blackfoot Other, Ceremonial Items
Leaves tied around the horn of the sacred buffalo skull used in ceremonials.
Johnston, Alex, 1987, Plants and the Blackfoot, Lethbridge, Alberta. Lethbridge Historical Society, page 22
Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
USDA CANE2
Blackfoot Other, Ceremonial Items
Plant tied around the horns of the buffalo head in the Sun Dance.
Murphey, Edith Van Allen, 1990, Indian Uses of Native Plants, Glenwood, Ill. Meyerbooks. Originally published in 1959, page 51
Carex nebrascensis Dewey
Nebraska Sedge
USDA CANE2
Cheyenne Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Plant used in the Sun Dance and Massaum ceremonies.
Hart, Jeffrey A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana, Journal of Ethnopharmacology 4:1-55, page 7