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Aboriginal plant use in Canada's northwest boreal forest / Robin J. Marles ... [et al.].
This handbook describes the traditional uses by aboriginal people of more than 200 different plants from Canada's boreal forest. It is the result of original ethnobotanical fieldwork in 29 communities across the boreal forest region of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Natural resources of the boreal forest have always been essential to the dietary, medical, economic, and spiritual well-being of First Nations people, but until now much of their traditional environmental knowledge has remained unrecorded and at risk of being lost. To compile this book the authors, along with seven other First Nation trainees, five Métis trainees, and four other botany students, learned how to collect voucher plant specimens and record traditional knowledge about the use of plants for medicine, handicrafts, technology, and ritual practices. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared among communities. The entries and accompanying photographs are arranged according to the plant family and include information on physical descriptions, habitat, uses for food, technology, medicine, and potential economic use. The book also includes an explanation of the research approach, a literature review, and an overview of the ecological and cultural background of the area.
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- ISBN: 0774807377 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780774807371 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 0774807385 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780774807388 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xiii, 368 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2000.
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- General Note:
- Copublished by: Natural Resources Canada and Canadian Forest Service.
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-327) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Introduction ; Research Methods ; Ecological Background ; Cultural Background ; Related Literature on Boreal Plant Uses -- Traditional Uses of Boreal Forest Plants ; Common and Other Names ; Scientific Name and Voucher Specimens ; Description and Habitat ; Food Uses ; Medicinal Uses ; Technological Uses ; Ritual Uses ; Properties ; Potential -- Listing of Useful Plants ; Fungi ; Lichens ; Nonvascular Plants ; Vascular Spore-Producing Plants ; Gymnosperms ; Angiosperms: Magnoliopsida ; Angiosperms: Liliopsida.
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