Plants used by the Indigenous

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Plants used by the Indigenous

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Selected plants in which the Indigenous harvested and used for several applications; the most popular uses that were used for this harvested plants were for food and for medicinal properties

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"Plants of Haida Gwaii" by Nancy J. Turner
“Traditional Carrier First Nations Vegetables & Medicines” web article by Marlaena Mann]

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SONO NIS PRESS; Winlaw, BC

Date

"Plants of Haida Gwaii" by Nancy J. Turner; published in 2004

Contributor

"Plants of Haida Gwaii" by Nancy J. Turner: Florence Davidson, Willie and Emma Matthews, George Young, Emma and Solomon Wilson, Maude and Agnes Moody, Watson and Sarah Pryce, Kathleen Hans, Becky Pearson, and other Haida Plant specialist

Illustrations by Giitsxaa (Ron Wilson)
Prayer for Haida Medicine by Gwaaganad (Diane Brown)
Epilogue y K'ii7lljuus (Barbara Wilson)

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Collection Items

Canada Mayflower/ "Wild Lily of the Valley", or Two-leaved Solomon's Seal
This plant was eaten by the Indigenous, and was noted in the book "Plants of Haida Gwaii = X̱aayda gwaay" by Nancy J. Turner. It was mostly eaten as is or processed, and was consumed for its sweet taste. The plant was used in a medicinal…

Conifer Needle or Hemlock (Poison Hemlock) or Cow Parsnip
Conifer Needle or Hemlock (Poison Hemlock) or Cow Parsnip
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Conium maculatum; Carrot family Apiaceae;

poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant;

poison parsley, spotted corobane and…
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