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Algonquin, Quebec Food, Vegetable Used as a salad plant. Black, Meredith Jean, 1980, Algonquin Ethnobotany: An Interpretation of Aboriginal Adaptation in South Western Quebec, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series Number 65, page 86 |
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Cahuilla Food, Vegetable Eaten fresh in the spring, cooked like spinach or mixed with less flavorful greens into a salad. 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 90 |
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Cherokee Food, Vegetable Leaves boiled and eaten with bacon grease as potherbs. Perry, Myra Jean, 1975, Food Use of 'Wild' Plants by Cherokee Indians, The University of Tennessee, M.S. Thesis, page 37 |
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Cherokee Food, Vegetable Leaves eaten cooked or raw as greens. Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 61 |
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Cherokee Food, Vegetable Leaves used in salads. Perry, Myra Jean, 1975, Food Use of 'Wild' Plants by Cherokee Indians, The University of Tennessee, M.S. Thesis, page 37 |
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Costanoan Drug, Febrifuge Cold infusion of plants taken for fevers. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 10 |
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Costanoan Drug, Kidney Aid Decoction of plant used as a kidney remedy. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 10 |
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Costanoan Drug, Liver Aid Decoction of plant used as a liver remedy. Bocek, Barbara R., 1984, Ethnobotany of Costanoan Indians, California, Based on Collections by John P. Harrington, Economic Botany 38(2):240-255, page 10 |
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Diegueno Food, Vegetable Leaves boiled and eaten as greens. Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 37 |
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Gosiute Food, Unspecified Species used for food. Chamberlin, Ralph V., 1911, The Ethno-Botany of the Gosiute Indians of Utah, Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association 2(5):331-405., page 375 |
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Havasupai Food, Unspecified Species used for food. Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman, 1985, Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture, Tucson. The University of Arizona Press, page 220 |
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Iroquois Food, Vegetable Eaten raw, sometimes with salt. Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 118 |
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Karok Food, Unspecified Young plants boiled and eaten. Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 51 |
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Kawaiisu Food, Unspecified Leaves eaten raw, usually with salt, or boiled and fried in grease and salt. Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 60 |
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Luiseno Food, Vegetable Plant used for greens. Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 232 |
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Mahuna Drug, Liver Aid Plant used for torpid liver, cirrhosis of the liver and gallstones. Romero, John Bruno, 1954, The Botanical Lore of the California Indians, New York. Vantage Press, Inc., page 65 |
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Mendocino Indian Food, Sauce & Relish Leaves eaten as a relish. Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 352 |
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Okanagan-Colville Drug, Analgesic Poultice of fresh, whole plants applied to the forehead for headaches. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 92 |
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Okanagan-Colville Drug, Vertigo Medicine Poultice of fresh, whole plants applied to the forehead for dizziness. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 92 |
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Okanagan-Colville Food, Starvation Food Leaves used as a good emergency food. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 92 |
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Okanagan-Colville Food, Vegetable Leaves eaten raw as salad greens. Turner, Nancy J., R. Bouchard and Dorothy I.D. Kennedy, 1980, Ethnobotany of the Okanagan-Colville Indians of British Columbia and Washington, Victoria. British Columbia Provincial Museum, page 92 |
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Saanich Food, Unspecified Young leaves eaten raw. 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 82 |
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Tubatulabal Food, Vegetable Leaves and stems boiled as greens. Voegelin, Ermine W., 1938, Tubatulabal Ethnography, Anthropological Records 2(1):1-84, page 16 |