Ethnobotany Of Western Washington

Forty poems portraying the moods, sensations, and experiences of childhood.

MANY REFERENCES TO LUMMI USE OF NATIVE PLANTS. INCLUDES UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE QUILEUTE INDIANS.

Features more than five hundred plants and herbs of North America providing information on their location and medicinal uses.

The present book comprises of two sections, A and B. Section A has the text of the lectures during the Training Course in Ethnobotany, and the section B has some of the material and exercise handled by the trainees during the Workshop and in practical classes. The sequence of the lectures has been so arranged as to gradually and step by step introduce the scope, methodology, and applications of the subject along with the subjects of preparation of scientific papers and research projects. This book will not only popularize the important subject of Ethnobotany but will also provide basic instructions for person freshly interested or inducted into this discipline.

This study documents Blackfoot plant use as provided by elderly informants schooled in the tradition of plant uses. Use of approximately one hundred species are described in topical form: religion and ceremony, birth control, medicine, horse medicine, diet, craft and folklore.