| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Pend d'Oreille, Upper Other, Cash Crop Traded to the Kutenai. Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 14 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Quileute Food, Unspecified Bulbs pit baked and used for food. Reagan, Albert B., 1936, Plants Used by the Hoh and Quileute Indians, Kansas Academy of Science 37:55-70, page 59 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Salish Food, Vegetable Bulbs used for food. Turner, Nancy J. and Barbara S. Efrat, 1982, Ethnobotany of the Hesquiat Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 54 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Salish, Coast Food, Dried Food Bulbs pit steamed, slightly dried and used for food. Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 74 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Salish, Coast Food, Vegetable Bulbs pit steamed and eaten immediately as the most important vegetable food. Turner, Nancy Chapman and Marcus A. M. Bell, 1971, The Ethnobotany of the Coast Salish Indians of Vancouver Island, I and II, Economic Botany 25(1):63-104, 335-339, page 74 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Salish, Halkomelem Other, Cash Crop Bulbs traded to the Nootka and Nitinaht tribes. Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 83 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Salish, Straits Other, Cash Crop Bulbs traded to the Nootka and Nitinaht tribes. Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 83 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Shoshoni Other, Cash Crop Traded to the Nez Perce. Hart, Jeff, 1992, Montana Native Plants and Early Peoples, Helena. Montana Historical Society Press, page 14 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Skagit, Upper Food, Unspecified Bulbs steamed in an earth oven and eaten. Theodoratus, Robert J., 1989, Loss, Transfer, and Reintroduction in the Use of Wild Plant Foods in the Upper Skagit Valley, Northwest Anthropological Research Notes 23(1):35-52, page 40 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Thompson Food, Unspecified Bulbs baked and used for food. Perry, F., 1952, Ethno-Botany of the Indians in the Interior of British Columbia, Museum and Art Notes 2(2):36-43., page 37 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Thompson Food, Unspecified Bulbs cooked and eaten. Steedman, E.V., 1928, The Ethnobotany of the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, SI-BAE Annual Report #45:441-522, page 481 |
| Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene Small Camas USDA CAQUQ |
Yuki Food, Unspecified Bulbs pit cooked and eaten. Curtin, L. S. M., 1957, Some Plants Used by the Yuki Indians ... II. Food Plants, The Masterkey 31:85-94, page 86 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Blackfoot Food, Unspecified Roots baked and eaten. McClintock, Walter, 1909, Medizinal- Und Nutzpflanzen Der Schwarzfuss Indianer, Zeitschriff fur Ethnologie 41:273-9, page 278 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Coeur d'Alene Food, Vegetable Roots used as a principle vegetable food. Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 88 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Comanche Food, Unspecified Raw roots used for food. Carlson, Gustav G. and Volney H. Jones, 1940, Some Notes on Uses of Plants by the Comanche Indians, Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 25:517-542, page 520 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Creek Drug, Unspecified Plant used medicinally for unspecified purpose. Swanton, John R, 1928, Religious Beliefs and Medical Practices of the Creek Indians, SI-BAE Annual Report #42:473-672, page 667 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Gosiute Food, Unspecified Bulbs roasted in pits lined with hot stones and eaten. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 364 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Gosiute Food, Winter Use Food Bulbs formerly preserved for winter use. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 364 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Montana Indian Food, Unspecified Bulbs boiled for eating fresh or preserved. Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 9 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Montana Indian Food, Winter Use Food Bulbs baked in the ground by hot stones and dried for winter use. Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 9 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Okanagon Food, Staple Roots used as a principle food. Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 238 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Okanagon Food, Unspecified Roots used as an important food. Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 237 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Spokan Food, Unspecified Roots used for food. Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 343 |
| Camassia scilloides (Raf.) Cory Atlantic Camas USDA CASC5 |
Thompson Food, Unspecified Roots used as an important food. Teit, James A., 1928, The Salishan Tribes of the Western Plateaus, SI-BAE Annual Report #45, page 237 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Haisla Food, Vegetable Bulbs used for food. Compton, Brian Douglas, 1993, Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants..., Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia, page 194 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Nitinaht Food, Unspecified Bulbs formerly used as an important food. Turner, Nancy J., John Thomas, Barry F. Carlson and Robert T. Ogilvie, 1983, Ethnobotany of the Nitinaht Indians of Vancouver Island, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 63 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Sanpoil and Nespelem Food, Bread & Cake Raw or roasted bulbs pulverized, formed into small cakes or balls and dried for storage. Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 99 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Sanpoil and Nespelem Food, Bread & Cake Raw or roasted root pulverized, formed into small cakes or balls and dried for storage. Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 99 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Sanpoil and Nespelem Food, Unspecified Plant, raw or cooked in underground pits, used for food. Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 99 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Sanpoil and Nespelem Food, Unspecified Skinless bulb roasted until tender and used for food. Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 99 |
| Camassia sp. Camas |
Sanpoil and Nespelem Food, Unspecified Steamed or raw roots used for food. A cooking basket was filled half full of water and hot rocks added to boil the water. Then small sticks were placed criss-cross in the basket above the surface of the water to hold the roots. After the roots had been added the basket was covered with a flat rock or piece of cedar plank to keep the steam from escaping. Ray, Verne F., 1932, The Sanpoil and Nespelem: Salishan Peoples of Northeastern Washington, University of Washington Publications in Anthropology, Vol. 5, page 99 |