Crow Indian recipes and herbal medicines

218 Pages·2006·2.51 MB·English

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A Taste of 4
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Heritage
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Crow Indian
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Recipes & Herbal
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Medicines
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lisa castle 29
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kelly kindscher
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6 © 2006 by Alma Hogan Snell
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Manufactured in the United States of America
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10 All photographs are by Lisa M. Castle.
11 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
12 Snell, Alma Hogan.
A taste of heritage: Crow Indian recipes and herbal medicines /
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Alma Hogan Snell; edited by Lisa Castle;
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foreword by Kelly Kindsher.
15 p. cm.—(At table)
16 Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn-13: 978-0-8032-9353-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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isbn-10: 0-8032-9353-4 (pbk.: alk. paper)
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1. Indian cookery. 2. Crow Indians—Food.
19 3. Medicinal plants. I. Castle, Lisa. II. Title.
20 III. At table series.
tx715.s669 2006
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Contents 6
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List of Illustrations viii 10
Foreword ix 11
Acknowledgments xiii 12
Editor's Introduction xv 13
Author's Introduction xix 14
Map xxii 15
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part one. A Taste of Heritage Foods 1
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1. Plant Foods 3
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2. Meats 67
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3. Breads 96
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part two. Plant Medicines and Healing 105 21
4. Three Favorite Medicinal Plants 107 22
5. Snakebite 123 23
6. More Medicinal Plants 128 24
7. Other Ways of Healing 152 25
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part three. Beauty and Love 161
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8. Beauty Secrets 162
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9. Love Medicines 173
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Conclusion 178
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Appendix: Plant List 179 31
References 183 32
Index 185 33
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6 Illustrations
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10 Wild carrot 13
11 Cattails 16
12 Salsify 19
13 Yucca 20
14 Currants 36
15 Elderbush 38
16 Chokecherries 40
17 Rose 52
18 Rose hips 53
19 Catnip 61
20 Yarrow 108
21 Echinacea 115
22 Flax 132
23 Showy milkweed 140
24 Monarda 140
25 Mullein 142
26 Prairie coneflower 145
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In southern Montana, across the Crow Reservation, past fields of 12
wheat and sugar beets, past cattle grazing on golden hills, past the 13
St. Frances Xavier Mission and cabins rented to trout fisherman, and 14
past the turnoff to the Yellowtail Dam, lies the Snell family home. I 15
first drove there after my friend Robyn Klein told me that I needed to 16
meet Alma Snell. Alma wanted to write a book on traditional Crow 17
food recipes and herbal medicines, and she was looking for assis- 18
tance. Much of my ethnobotanical work has involved studying and 19
honoring Native American traditional knowledge, so I knew Robyn 20
was right. I made arrangements to visit Alma at her home, nestled in 21
the red sandstone foothills of the Big Horn Mountains and surround- 22
ed by ponderosa pines. I wanted to ask about her cookbook and tell 23
her about Lisa Castle, a new graduate student who had come to work 24
with me at the University of Kansas. Lisa had been an educator at the 25
Denver Botanic Gardens, and I thought would likely be interested in 26
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I hadn't been with Alma long before I realized that she is the most 28
loving, positive person I have ever met. She was full of energy and de- 29
termined to get her book published quickly because friends and rel- 30
atives were already asking for it. I said that I would gladly help facili- 31
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Alma supplied me with bison jerky and plum ketchup for the long 33
trip back to Kansas. When I left, the evening light was golden on the 34