Indian Use of Wild Plants for Crafts, Food, Medicine, and Charms
Title | Indian Use of Wild Plants for Crafts, Food, Medicine, and Charms PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Ohsweken, Ont. : Iroqrafts |
Total Pages | 121 |
Release | 1987-01-01 |
Genre | Ethnobotany |
ISBN | 9780919645165 |
How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts
Title | How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine & Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | 172 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Cooking |
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Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usage and botanical and common names. Bibliogs
How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts
Title | How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Densmore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Botany, Medical |
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Use of plants by Native Americans.
Indian Uses of Native Plants
Title | Indian Uses of Native Plants PDF eBook |
Author | Edith Van Allen Murphey |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 102 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Botany |
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Bridging Two Peoples
Title | Bridging Two Peoples PDF eBook |
Author | Allan Sherwin |
Publisher | Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2012-06-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1554586534 |
Bridging Two Peoples tells the story of Dr. Peter E. Jones, who in 1866 became one of the first status Indians to obtain a medical doctor degree from a Canadian university. He returned to his southern Ontario reserve and was elected chief and band doctor. As secretary to the Grand Indian Council of Ontario he became a bridge between peoples, conveying the chiefs’ concerns to his political mentor Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, most importantly during consultations on the Indian Act. The third son of a Mississauga-Ojibwe missionary and his English wife, Peter E. Jones overcame paralytic polio to lead his people forward. He supported the granting of voting rights to Indians and edited Canada’s first Native newspaper to encourage them to vote. Appointed a Federal Indian Agent, a post usually reserved for non-Natives, Jones promoted education and introduced modern public health measures on his reserve. But there was little he could do to stem the ravages of tuberculosis that cemetery records show claimed upwards of 40 per cent of the band. The Jones family included Native and non-Native members who treated each other equally. Jones’s Mississauga grandmother is now honoured for helping survey the province of Ontario. His mother published books and his wife was an early feminist. The appendix describes how Aboriginal grandmothers used herbal medicines and crafted surgical appliances from birchbark.
Arboretum America
Title | Arboretum America PDF eBook |
Author | Diana Beresford-Kroeger |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780472068517 |
Donated by Alain Arts, 2010, and autographed by author.
Medicine that Walks
Title | Medicine that Walks PDF eBook |
Author | Maureen Katherine Lux |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9780802082954 |
Challenging the view that Aboriginal medicine was helpless to deal with European disease, Lux argues that the diseases killing the Plains people were not contagious epidemics but grinding poverty, malnutrition, and overcrowding.