Category: Nature/Gardening/Animals
This bulletin is the third in a series of six, recounting the field work done among Wisconsin Indians to discover their present uses of native or introduced plants and, insofar as is possible, the history of these plant uses by their ancestors. As far back as 1888 Hoffman[85]...
The native flora is about the same at both Lac du Flambeau and Leech Lake, and the species are by no means as varied as on the Menomonie Reservation. They make full use of every...
7. Part 7=Climbing Bittersweet= (_Celastrus scandens_ L.), “manîdobîmaˈ kwît” [spirit twisted].[136] The Pillager Ojibwe story of this plant is practically the same as that of the Menomi...
8. Part 8=High Bush Blackberry= (_Rubus allegheniensis_ Porter), “odatagaˈ gomîc” [blackberry stem].[142] The Flambeau Ojibwe relish the Blackberry and also the Dewberry (_Rubus villosus...
9. Part 9=Tamarack= (_Larix laricina_ [DuRoi] Koch), “mûckiˈgwatîg” [swamp tree]. Larch roots are also used as a sewing material by the Flambeau and Couderay Ojibwe and they used to sew...
6. Part 6=Small Bedstraw= (_Galium trifidum_ L.), “ojîbweˈ oweˈ cûwûn”, [ojibwe male genitalia]. The Pillager Ojibwe make a medicinal tea of this species for skin diseases such as eczema...
1. Part 1This bulletin is the third in a series of six, recounting the field work done among Wisconsin Indians to discover their present uses of native or introduced plants and, insofar...
5. Part 5=Sweet White Water Lily= (_Castalia odorata_ [Ait.] Woodville & Wood.), “odîteˈabûg waˈ bîgwûn” [flat heart leaf, white flower]. The Flambeau Ojibwe use the root as a cough medi...
4. Part 4=Philadelphia Fleabane= (_Erigeron philadelphicus_ L.) “mîcaoˈgacan” [odor of deer hoof]. The Pillager Ojibwe use the flowers to make a tea to break fevers. The smoke of the dri...
3. Part 3=Bear=, “mûkwo”. Bear’s fat was used in several compounds. Melted alone and swallowed it became a drastic physic. Buds of the Balsam Poplar (_Populus balsamifera_) and the Large...
10. Part 10=Yellow Pimpernel= (_Taenidia integerrima_ [L.] Drude), “manweˈgons” or “manweˈkos”. The Flambeau Ojibwe declare that the seeds of this plant are very good for smoking in a pipe...
11. Part 11abaˈbûsûn Smilacina racemosa Kidneys 374 abagwasîˈgans Cicuta maculata Hunting 432 abakwanûgiˈmûg Pinus resinosa Pitch 421 abakwanûgiˈmûg Pinus resinosa Sudatory 379 abûkweˈskwe...
12. Part 12caboˈmînûk Ribes oxyacanthoides Food 410 caboˈsîkûn Asclepias syriaca Food 397 caboˈsîkûn Iris versicolor Physic 371 cabosîˈkûn Euphorbia corollata Physic 369 caboˈsîkûn Asclepi...