Indigenous Studies

This handbook describes the traditional uses by aboriginal people of more than 200 different plants from Canada's boreal forest.

Keeping It Living brings together some of the world’s most prominent specialists on Northwest Coast cultures to examine traditional cultivation practices from Oregon to Southeast Alaska.

Mi'kmaq Medicines chronicles more than seventy plants used by the Mi'kmaq as medicines. Lacey takes us into the swamps and bogs, the barrens and woods to explore the habitats of plants with healing properties. He then illustrates each medicinal plant and describes its traditional use.

In "Native American Medicinal Plants," anthropologist Daniel E. Moerman describes the medicinal use of more than 2700 plants by 218 Native American tribes.

Nancy Turner focuses on the plants that provided heat, shelter, transportation, clothing, clothing, nets, ropes, and containers -- the necessities of life for First Peoples in B.C. and adjacent territories.

Featuring the botanical knowledge of Saanich elders Elsie Claxton (Tsawout), Dave Elliott Sr (Tsartlip), Christopher Paul (Tsartlip) and Violet Williams (Pauquachin)

An important study of the plants traditionally used by the Thompson (Nlaka'pamux) people as food and medicine. This study discusses the use of these plants as food, clothing, tools and medicines, and their role in traditional beliefs.

This volume details the nutritional properties, botanical characteristics and ethnic uses of traditional food plants of indigenous Canadian Peoples.

Discoveries of new drugs, organic pesticides, and other plant uses based on research in traditional cultures are increasingly common. The study of human/plant interactions which draws on the methods of antropology, botany, pharmacology and other disciplines is reported here. The text highlights the discovery of new drugs and chemical compounds and insights into conservation in order to aid understanding of the relationship between humans and plants.