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Bromus tectorum L.
Cheatgrass
USDA BRTE
Cahuilla Food, Starvation Food
Seeds, a famine food, cooked into a gruel during food shortages.
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel, 1972, Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants, Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press, page 48
Bromus tectorum L.
Cheatgrass
USDA BRTE
Navajo, Kayenta Drug, Ceremonial Medicine
Infusion of plant used as a face wash for God-Impersonators.
Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 15
Bromus tectorum L.
Cheatgrass
USDA BRTE
Navajo, Ramah Food, Fodder
Used for sheep and horse feed.
Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 16
Bromus tectorum L.
Cheatgrass
USDA BRTE
Paiute Fiber, Mats, Rugs & Bedding
Leaves used under bedding when camping.
Mahar, James Michael., 1953, Ethnobotany of the Oregon Paiutes of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Reed College, B.A. Thesis, page 51