This volume details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of traditional food plants of indigenous Canadian Peoples. It contains an index of over one thousand plants from all provinces of Canada, as well as the bordering states, for which the Indian and Inuit peoples of each regfion have been consulted as the definitive source concerning plant usage within the scope of their environment and culture. Health care professionals and organizations working with Indigenous Canadian Peoples, biologists, ehtnologists and academics will appreciate the comprehensive information compiled on nutritional, medical and botanical characteristics.
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The primary purpose of this book is to describe and to reference the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ooligan grease, sium sium, cottonwood mushroom, bitterroot roots, cium phorus, black tree lichen, traditional plant foods, aster greens, fern rootstocks, springbank clover, milkweed greens, silverweed roots, gooseberry berry, crabapple fruit, pigweed greens, great camas, southern prairie provinces, huckleberry fruit, herbaceous perennial growing, maple sprouts, common camas, eaten traditionally, saskatoon berries, fish grease, underground caches Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, United States, Crude Fiber, Zinc Iron, Interior Salish, North America, Vancouver Island, Northwest Territories, Bella Coola, Tanaina of Alaska, Port Simpson Curriculum Committee, Northwest Coast, Great Lakes, New York, New Mexico, Upriver Halkomelem, New Brunswick, Coast Salish, Coast Tsimshian, Nova Scotia, Blackfoot of Alberta, Fiber Ash, Rosaceae Rosaceae, Wildlife Management, Lower Nlaka'pamux New!
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The primary purpose of this book is to describe and to reference the published literature on the nutritional properties, the botanical characteristics and the ethnic uses of traditional food plants of Canadian Indigenous Peoples. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ooligan grease, sium sium, cottonwood mushroom, bitterroot roots, cium phorus, black tree lichen, traditional plant foods, aster greens, fern rootstocks, springbank clover, milkweed greens, silverweed roots, gooseberry berry, crabapple fruit, pigweed greens, great camas, southern prairie provinces, huckleberry fruit, herbaceous perennial growing, maple sprouts, common camas, eaten traditionally, saskatoon berries, fish grease, underground caches Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
British Columbia, United States, Crude Fiber, Zinc Iron, Interior Salish, North America, Vancouver Island, Northwest Territories, Bella Coola, Tanaina of Alaska, Port Simpson Curriculum Committee, Northwest Coast, Great Lakes, New York, New Mexico, Upriver Halkomelem, New Brunswick, Coast Salish, Coast Tsimshian, Nova Scotia, Blackfoot of Alberta, Fiber Ash, Rosaceae Rosaceae, Wildlife Management, Lower Nlaka'pamux New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Flora of Canada by B. Scoggan on page 505
- Sturtevant's Edible Plants of the World by U. P. Hedrick on page 494
- North American Indians (Troubador Color and Story Albu) by Frank Fox on page 494
- Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation by F. W. Waugh on page 510
- Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin on page 492
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- Biodiversity and Native America by Paul E. Minnis on page 175
- Native Plants in the Coastal Garden by April Pettinger on page 114
- Wild Plants Of The Sierra Nevada by Ray S. Vizgirdas in Back Matter
- Herbs Botanicals and Teas by B. Dave Oomah on page 206
- Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution by Peter S. Ungar in Back Matter
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