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Native American Ethnobotany

Description

An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman has devoted 25 years to the task of gathering together the accumulated ethnobotanical knowledge on more than 4000 plants. More than 44,000 uses for these plants by various tribes are documented here. This is undoubtedly the most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken, preserving an enormous store of information for the future.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-12-12
Summary: "Fabulous reference book!"

I can really appreciate this book because I know how much work went into creating it. Although I wish there was more detail about how the plants were used I'm able to cross reference other books to get the information I need. The layout of the book gives you the ability to attack a given plant inquiry from many different perspectives. For example, you can decide you want to know what a particular group of Native Americans did with a specific plant and look up the plant in the main body of the book (Catalog of Plants) and it will summarize the uses by the following categories: drug, food, fiber, dye & other. Then within each of these categories each group of Native American tribe is named with the uses if it applies to them. All of the uses are referenced to the literature (bibliography) giving you the ablity to obtain original articles if desired. From another perspective, you can have an interest in the Cherokee and go to the section "Index of Tribes" which will allow you to look up each of the many specific subcategories of the main categories mentioned above and get the use of specific plants such as under, Drug, the analgesic plant uses. It also contains a list of the tribes as well as their native regions which includes tribes from the U.S. (Alaska & Hawaii too), Canada, Greenland and some of Mexico (Northern). There is also an index of usages that is very handy. Each usage category will have an alphabetical list of plant genera followed by the tribe name(s) that used these genera. If you have any interest in Native American Ethnobotany then this book is of value and I highly recommend it for Native Americans, botanists, foragers and others interested in the disappearing knowledge of these amazing cultures.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2009-04-08
Summary: "Essential addition to ethnobotany library"

As many of the previous reviews said, this book is an excellent reference. It is not a field guide, nor was it meant to be: the usage information is very brief, there are no pictures, or physical descriptions of the plants -- there are other books for that. Anyhow, the other reviews pretty much covered everything accurately ... highly, highly recommended.

It should also be pointed out that the information is available free online -- the author has a website called the Native American Ethnobotany Database (University Michigan Dearborn) -- http://herb.umd.umich.edu ... but the book is nice to have around, and has some information that is not on the site.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-10-13
Summary: "Best Single Source on Native American Uses of Plants"

This is a big, solid hardcover volume that should be part of every library and university collection's plant and/or Native American reference sections. It is the absolute most thorough and comprehensive book on the subject, with cross-indexing and various ways to find the information you are looking for. I have an M.A. in Anthropology and am Native American myself (Ioway) and this book is an indispensable part of my personal library for both academic and personal use.

It is broken down into several sections, after the preface and acknowledgements.

"Plant Use by Native Americans" (pp. 11-28) gives overviews on the use of plants for drugs (medicines), foods, fibers and dyes, and other uses (hunting and fishing supplies (rods, lines, lures, traps, bows, arrows, spears, etc.), incense and fragrances, fuels, tools, and other uses. Interesting facts emerge such as more tribes used chokecherry as food (163 tribes) than corn (121 tribes), and the plant with the most medicinal uses was the common yarrow (355 uses)! The usages section covers the various sources of information and gives a list of the tribes and their locations.

"Organization of the Information" (pp. 29-32) discusses some of the issues involving the scientific and common plant names, both of which have varied over time and region, as well as ethnobotanical information.

The "Catalog of Plants" is the biggest part of the book (pp. 33-614), and it is arranged alphabetically by genus, with sublistings and specifics under the species. Then under each species, the use/s is/are given, as well as the tribe(s) which use it in those ways. For example, the chokecherry (Prunus virginiana) covers 4 pages in small print (pp. 444-448) of its many uses and the tribes across the U.S. who used it. After each use and tribe, the reference number in the original source is given. One example for chokecherry: "Cheyenne - Antidiarrheal - Unripened berries pulverized and used for diarrhea. (82:42)." Turning to the Bibliography, we find #82 is Jeff Hart's _Montana Plants and Early Peoples_, and checking page 42 of that book (which I also own and recommend) we find the passage there.

After the catalog of plants, there are sections on notes for certain entries, the bibliography of 206 sources, and FOUR useful indexes: two plant usage indexes (index of tribes and index of usages) and two plant name indexes (index of synonyms and index of common names).

The downsides? The print is fairly small, though the decent print quality makes it okay to read for my almost-50 year old eyes. If you are looking to learn how to identify plants, this is NOT the book to buy for that purpose. There are no photos or illustrations in this book. It is not a book that gives specifics on how the plants are mixed, gathered, applied, etc. For example, a plant's effectiveness is often tied to ceremonial and religious aspects that are not covered. There are details that can heal or harm if not absolutely correctly used that are not given. You need to buy field guides and plant keys for the area you are interested in to visually identify plants.

However, if you know the plants you are studying, and wish to have an encyclopedia-type reference to their uses in the various American Indian tribes and nations, you need this book. It's a little spendy because it is so big and is a hardcover, but I haven't regretted buying it and have used it often. It is really a lifetime reference source.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-06-18
Summary: "Excellent reference book"

This is a great informational book. I couldn't wait to get it. The only thing lacking that would really be complete would be a pictorial key which I know is impossible for the amount of info . Everyone interested in botany, gardening or the ancient ways needs this book.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-06-17
Summary: "Native American Ethnobotany: A primordial survival guide to healthy sustainability."

This is a bible of plant uses that goes a LONG way! It doesn't include the dichotomic keys to identify the plant, but it tell you what has been done with them for the past millenia. Highly recommended.