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9368 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Alaska Native 4 | h53 132 | 21 | Food 1 | Dietary Aid 19 | Fresh leaves, properly cooked, furnished significant amounts of vitamins C and A. | Heller, Christine A., 1953, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, University of Alaska, page 21 |
9369 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Alaska Native 4 | h53 132 | 21 | Food 1 | Substitution Food 112 | Young, tender leaves and stems used as a substitute for spinach or other greens. | Heller, Christine A., 1953, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, University of Alaska, page 21 |
9370 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Alaska Native 4 | h53 132 | 21 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young, tender leaves and stems cooked in a small amount of boiling water and eaten. | Heller, Christine A., 1953, Edible and Poisonous Plants of Alaska, University of Alaska, page 21 |
9371 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Apache 10 | c35 19 | 16 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plants cooked as greens. | Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16 |
9372 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Apache, Chiricahua & Mescalero 11 | co36 95 | 46 | Food 1 | Eaten without preparation or cooked with green chile and meat or animal bones. | Castetter, Edward F. and M. E. Opler, 1936, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest III. The Ethnobiology of the Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(5):1-63, page 46 | |
9373 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Carrier 27 | c73 134 | 86 | Drug 2 | Blood Medicine 11 | Decoction of plant taken to improve the blood. | Carrier Linguistic Committee, 1973, Plants of Carrier Country, Fort St. James, BC. Carrier Linguistic Committee, page 86 |
9374 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cherokee 32 | hc75 1 | 42 | Drug 2 | Dietary Aid 222 | Cooked salad greens eaten to 'keep healthy.' | Hamel, Paul B. and Mary U. Chiltoskey, 1975, Cherokee Plants and Their Uses -- A 400 Year History, Sylva, N.C. Herald Publishing Co., page 42 |
9375 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cherokee 32 | w77 161 | 253 | Food 1 | Spice 86 | Young growth mixed with mustard leaves, morning glory leaves or potato leaves for flavoring. | Witthoft, John, 1977, Cherokee Indian Use of Potherbs, Journal of Cherokee Studies 2(2):250-255, page 253 |
9376 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cherokee 32 | w77 161 | 253 | Food 1 | Young growth parboiled, fried and eaten. | Witthoft, John, 1977, Cherokee Indian Use of Potherbs, Journal of Cherokee Studies 2(2):250-255, page 253 | |
9377 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cherokee 32 | perry75 86 | 32 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves mixed with other leaves and used for greens. | Perry, Myra Jean, 1975, Food Use of 'Wild' Plants by Cherokee Indians, The University of Tennessee, M.S. Thesis, page 32 |
9378 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cherokee 32 | perry75 86 | 32 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves mixed with other leaves, parboiled and cooked in grease until tender. | Perry, Myra Jean, 1975, Food Use of 'Wild' Plants by Cherokee Indians, The University of Tennessee, M.S. Thesis, page 32 |
9379 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 35 | Drug 2 | Antirheumatic (External) 35 | Decoction of plant used as wash for painful limbs. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 35 |
9380 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Cree, Woodlands 58 | l85 47 | 35 | Drug 2 | Antirheumatic (Internal) 92 | Decoction of plant taken for painful limbs. | Leighton, Anna L., 1985, Wild Plant Use by the Woods Cree (Nihithawak) of East-Central Saskatchewan, Ottawa. National Museums of Canada. Mercury Series, page 35 |
9381 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Dakota 61 | g19 17 | 78 | Food 1 | Soup 56 | Young, tender plant cooked as pottage. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 78 |
9382 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Dakota 61 | g13i 91 | 361 | Food 1 | Young plants boiled for food. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1913, Some Native Nebraska Plants With Their Uses by the Dakota, Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society 17:358-70, page 361 | |
9383 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Diegueno 65 | hedges86 85 | 17 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves cooked and eaten as greens. | Hedges, Ken, 1986, Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany, San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20, page 17 |
9384 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 64 | Drug 2 | Carminative 119 | Leaves and stems cooked with beans to reduce the intestinal gas from eating the beans. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 64 |
9385 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 64 | Food 1 | Dried Food 4 | Leaves and stems dried for future use. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 64 |
9386 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 64 | Food 1 | Frozen Food 66 | Leaves and stems frozen for future use. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 64 |
9387 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Eskimo, Inupiat 72 | j83 54 | 64 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves and stems eaten raw or cooked as hot greens with beans. | Jones, Anore, 1983, Nauriat Niginaqtuat = Plants That We Eat, Kotzebue, Alaska. Maniilaq Association Traditional Nutrition Program, page 64 |
9388 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Hopi 95 | vest40 126 | 160 | Food 1 | Porridge 44 | Ground seeds used to make mush. | Vestal, Paul A, 1940, Notes on a Collection of Plants from the Hopi Indian Region of Arizona Made by J. G. Owens in 1891, Botanical Museum Leaflets (Harvard University) 8(8):153-168, page 160 |
9389 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Hopi 95 | w39 37 | 73 | Food 1 | Boiled and eaten with other foods. | Whiting, Alfred F., 1939, Ethnobotany of the Hopi, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin #15, page 73 | |
9390 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Hopi 95 | f96 72 | 18 | Food 1 | Leaves boiled and eaten with fat. | Fewkes, J. Walter, 1896, A Contribution to Ethnobotany, American Anthropologist 9:14-21, page 18 | |
9391 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Hopi 95 | c35 19 | 16 | Food 1 | Leaves cooked with meat. | Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16 | |
9392 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 315 | Drug 2 | Antidiarrheal 68 | Cold infusion of whole plant taken for diarrhea. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 315 |
9393 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 316 | Drug 2 | Burn Dressing 82 | Compound used as salve on burns. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 316 |
9394 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Iroquois 100 | h77 7 | 315 | Drug 2 | Gynecological Aid 22 | Compound decoction used as wash and applied as poultice when bothered by milk flow. | Herrick, James William, 1977, Iroquois Medical Botany, State University of New York, Albany, PhD Thesis, page 315 |
9395 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Iroquois 100 | w16 112 | 117 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Cooked and seasoned with salt, pepper or butter. | Waugh, F. W., 1916, Iroquis Foods and Food Preparation, Ottawa. Canada Department of Mines, page 117 |
9396 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Kawaiisu 106 | z81 60 | 19 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Upper leaves boiled, 'rinsed' in cold water and fried in grease and salt. | Zigmond, Maurice L., 1981, Kawaiisu Ethnobotany, Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press, page 19 |
9397 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Lakota 125 | r80 108 | 43 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Used as cooked greens. | Rogers, Dilwyn J, 1980, Lakota Names and Traditional Uses of Native Plants by Sicangu (Brule) People in the Rosebud Area, South Dakota, St. Francis, SD. Rosebud Educational Scoiety, page 43 |
9398 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Luiseno 128 | s08 24 | 233 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves used as greens. | Sparkman, Philip S., 1908, The Culture of the Luiseno Indians, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234, page 233 |
9399 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Mendocino Indian 137 | c02 89 | 346 | Drug 2 | Gastrointestinal Aid 14 | Leaves used for stomachaches. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 346 |
9400 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Mendocino Indian 137 | c02 89 | 346 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young leaves boiled and eaten as greens. | Chestnut, V. K., 1902, Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California, Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408., page 346 |
9401 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Meskwaki 139 | smith28 21 | 209 | Drug 2 | Dermatological Aid 8 | Infusion of root used for urethral itching. | Smith, Huron H., 1928, Ethnobotany of the Meskwaki Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 4:175-326, page 209 |
9402 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 159 | Food 1 | Dried Food 4 | Boiled greens dried and stored for later use. | Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 159 |
9403 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Miwok 144 | bg33 100 | 159 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Boiled greens used for food. | Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford, 1933, Miwok Material Culture, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11, page 159 |
9404 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Mohegan 149 | t72 97 | 83 | Food 1 | Cooked and used for food. | Tantaquidgeon, Gladys, 1972, Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania Historical Commission Anthropological Papers #3, page 83 | |
9405 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Montana Indian 151 | b05 73 | 9 | Food 1 | Staple 75 | Seeds ground into flour and made into bread. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 9 |
9406 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Montana Indian 151 | b05 73 | 9 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plant used as a potherb. | Blankinship, J. W., 1905, Native Economic Plants of Montana, Bozeman. Montana Agricultural College Experimental Station, Bulletin 56, page 9 |
9407 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo 157 | h56 141 | 149 | Drug 2 | Dietary Aid 208 | Plant used as a nutrient. | Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 149 |
9408 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 43 | Food 1 | Dried Food 4 | Seeds dried and used like corn. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 43 |
9409 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo 157 | h56 141 | 149 | Food 1 | Staple 75 | Seeds ground and eaten as a nutrient. | Hocking, George M., 1956, Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, El Palacio 56:146-165, page 149 |
9410 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo 157 | e44 74 | 43 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young, tender plants eaten raw, boiled as herbs alone or with other foods. | Elmore, Francis H., 1944, Ethnobotany of the Navajo, Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research, page 43 |
9411 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo, Kayenta 158 | wh51 106 | 20 | Drug 2 | Burn Dressing 82 | Poultice of plant applied to burns. | Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 20 |
9412 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 24 | Drug 2 | Antidote 122 | Stem, three inches long, made into snake figurine for snake infection. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 24 |
9413 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 24 | Food 1 | Bread & Cake 2 | Seeds winnowed, ground with maize, made into bread and used as a ceremonial food in Nightway. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 24 |
9414 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 24 | Food 1 | Special Food 47 | Seeds winnowed, ground with maize, made into bread and used as a ceremonial food in Nightway. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 24 |
9415 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Navajo, Ramah 159 | v52 18 | 24 | Food 1 | Winter Use Food 59 | Seeds stored for winter use. | Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94, page 24 |
9416 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Ojibwa 173 | r28 8 | 240 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves eaten as greens. | Reagan, Albert B., 1928, Plants Used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota, Wisconsin Archeologist 7(4):230-248, page 240 |
9417 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Ojibwa 173 | ahj81 135 | 2209 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plant cooked as greens. | Arnason, Thor, Richard J. Hebda and Timothy Johns, 1981, Use of Plants for Food and Medicine by Native Peoples of Eastern Canada, Canadian Journal of Botany 59(11):2189-2325, page 2209 |
9418 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Omaha 177 | g19 17 | 78 | Food 1 | Soup 56 | Young, tender plant cooked as pottage. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 78 |
9419 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Paiute 183 | stew33 65 | 317 | Drug 2 | Emetic 40 | Leaf chewed as an emetic. | Steward, Julian H., 1933, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(3):233-250, page 317 |
9420 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Paiute 183 | k32 153 | 98 | Food 1 | Staple 75 | Seeds parched, ground and eaten as meal. | Kelly, Isabel T., 1932, Ethnography of the Surprise Valley Paiute, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 31(3):67-210, page 98 |
9421 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Paiute 183 | stew33 65 | 244 | Food 1 | Species used for food. | Steward, Julian H., 1933, Ethnography of the Owens Valley Paiute, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 33(3):233-250, page 244 | |
9422 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Papago 188 | cu35 27 | 16 | Food 1 | Soup 56 | Mixed with roasted cholla buds and eaten as a vegetable stew. | Castetter, Edward F. and Ruth M. Underhill, 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest II. The Ethnobiology of the Papago Indians, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(3):1-84, page 16 |
9423 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 78 | Food 1 | Soup 56 | Young, tender plant cooked as pottage. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 78 |
9424 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Pawnee 190 | g19 17 | 78 | Other 3 | Paint 26 | Plant formerly used for painting bows and arrows. | Gilmore, Melvin R., 1919, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, SI-BAE Annual Report #33, page 78 |
9425 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Pima, Gila River 195 | r91 136 | 7 | Food 1 | Leaves used for food. | Rea, Amadeo M., 1991, Gila River Pima Dietary Reconstruction, Arid Lands Newsletter 31:3-10, page 7 | |
9426 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 98 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Leaves included in the diet for scurvy or to prevent it. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 98 |
9427 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 47 | Drug 2 | Misc. Disease Remedy 87 | Plant considered a medicinal food used to prevent or cure scurvy. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 47 |
9428 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Potawatomi 206 | smith33 43 | 98 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves used as a relish food for salads and spring greens. | Smith, Huron H., 1933, Ethnobotany of the Forest Potawatomi Indians, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 7:1-230, page 98 |
9429 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Pueblo 207 | c35 19 | 16 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plants cooked as greens. | Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16 |
9430 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Shuswap 233 | palmer75 92 | 61 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Leaves boiled with butter, salt and pepper and used for greens. | Palmer, Gary, 1975, Shuswap Indian Ethnobotany, Syesis 8:29-51, page 61 |
9431 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Spanish American 249 | c35 19 | 16 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plants cooked as greens. | Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16 |
9432 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Thompson 259 | tta90 10 | 203 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Boiled leaves eaten as greens. | Turner, Nancy J., Laurence C. Thompson and M. Terry Thompson et al., 1990, Thompson Ethnobotany: Knowledge and Usage of Plants by the Thompson Indians of British Columbia, Victoria. Royal British Columbia Museum, page 203 |
9433 | Chenopodium album L. 894 | Zuni 291 | c35 19 | 16 | Food 1 | Vegetable 31 | Young plants cooked as greens. | Castetter, Edward F., 1935, Ethnobiological Studies in the American Southwest I. Uncultivated Native Plants Used as Sources of Food, University of New Mexico Bulletin 4(1):1-44, page 16 |
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CREATE TABLE uses ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL, species INTEGER NOT NULL, tribe INTEGER NOT NULL, source INTEGER NOT NULL, pageno TEXT NOT NULL, use_category INTEGER, use_subcategory INTEGER, notes TEXT, rawsource TEXT NOT NULL, FOREIGN KEY(use_category) REFERENCES use_categories(id), FOREIGN KEY(use_subcategory) REFERENCES use_subcategories(id), FOREIGN KEY(tribe) REFERENCES tribes(id), FOREIGN KEY(species) REFERENCES species(id), FOREIGN KEY(source) REFERENCES sources(id) );