How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts

by Frances Densmore

Book Overview

"Learn the natural ways of the Chippewa Indians with this great book from Dover." -- Texas Kitchen and Garden and MoreThe uses of plants -- for food, for medicine, for arts, crafts, and dyeing --... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486230198
• Release Date: June 1974
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Know what is local to you, rather than what is available at the supplement store

Frances Densmore delves into herbs of our specific area (we live in Northern Minnesota) in a way that male ethnobotanicists never have or possibly could. We have a treasure trove of herbal medicines at our disposal and she gives us the information needed to learn how to identify and use these medicines. Rather than going to a pharmacy or health food store and spending oodles of money on supplements and/or herbs which are quite possibly made from the very 'weeds' that you stumble upon on a walk through your woods, or state forests...learn about your areas own treasure trove...I only wish you all had access to such a definitive book.

Lots of good information

I learned alot from reading this book. It's fairly short, and has lots of interesting tidbits. Though I feel it should be renamed--it doesn't deal with most indian cultures, but rather the Chippewa Indians, as they are who Frances Densmore made an extensive study of. The title is a bit misleading. One thing I felt that would have improved the book would have been a bit more of a clear listing of the information in the book, but then again, it is rather dated material.

Rating Correction

I haven't read this book, but after reading the previous review from the other reviewer, it seems clear she highly recommends this book and thus made a mistake with her 1-star rating. It seems a shame and unjust that sales of this book would suffer because of the reviewer's mistaken star rating when her review was positively glowing. So I'm going to balance things out -- at least this book will have a 3-star rating.