The Herb Society of America Library

Native North American Plant Use

Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest. Vancouver: UBC Press, c2000.

The American Indian Garden from the National Herb Garden. (slide program) 

Austin, Daniel F. Florida Ethnobotany. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2004.

Bersok, Linda Murray.  American Indian Food. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Pr., 2005.

Buchanan, Carol. Brother Crow, Sister Corn: Traditional American Indian Gardening. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 1997. 

Caduto, Michael J. and Joseph Bruchac. Native American Gardening: Stories, Projects and Recipes for Families. Golden, CO: Fulcrum, 1996. 

Colton, Mary-Russell Ferrell. Hopi dyes.  Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizone, 1965.

Dennee, JoAnne. In the Three Sisters Garden. Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt, 1996. 

Densmore, Frances. How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine and Crafts. New York: Dover, 1974. 

Desmore, Frances. Strength of the Earth: The Classic Guide to Ojibwe uses of Native Plants. St. Paul, Minnesota: Minnesota Historical Soc. Press, c2005.

Dunmire, William W. and Gail D. Tierney. Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses. Sante Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1995. 

Erichsen-Brown, Charlotte. Medicinal and Other Uses of North American Plants: A Historical Survey with Special Reference to the Eastern Indian Tribes. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1979.

Garrett, J. T. The Cherokee Herbal: Native Plant Medicine from the Four Directions. Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Co., c2003.

Gunther, Erna. Ethnobotany of Western Washington: The Knowledge and Use of Indiginous Plants by Native Americans. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1973. 

Hart, Jeff. Montana-Native Plants and Early People. Helena: Montana Historical Society., c1976.

Hutchens, Alma R. A Handbook of Native American Herbs. Boston: Shambhala, 1992. 

Kavasch, E. Barrie and Karen Baar. American Indian Healing Arts. New York: Bantam, 1999. 

Kavasch, E. Barrie. Herbal Traditions: Medicinal Plants in American Indian Life. Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution, 1979.

Kavasch, E. Barrie. Medicine Wheel Garden: Creating Sacred Space for Healing, Celebration, and Tranquility. New York: Bantam, 2002. 

Kavasch, E. Barrie. Native Harvests: Recipes and Botanicals of the American Indian. New York: Random House, 1979.

Kavasch, E. Barrie. Native Harvests: American Indian Wild Foods and Recipes. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2005.

Keeping it Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America. Seattle: U. of Washington Press, c2005.

Kindscher, Kelly. Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1992. 

McCampbell, Harvest. Sacred Smoke: An Ancient Art for Modern Times. Summertown, Tenn.: Native Voices, 2002. 

Mead, George R. The Ethnobotany of the California Indians. La Grand, Oregon: E-Cat Worlds, c2003.

Moerman, Daniel E. Geraniums for the Iroquois: A Field Guide to American Indian Medicinal Plants. Algonac, MI: Reference Publications, 1981. 

Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Ethnobotany . Portland, OR: Timber Press, 1998. 

Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Medicinal Plants: an Ethnobotanical Dictionary. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, 2009.

Murphey, Edith Van Allen. Indian Uses of Native Plants. Glenwood, IL: Edith Van Allen Murphey and Meyerbooks, 1959. 

Nabhan, Gary Paul. Gathering the Desert. Tucson, Arizona: University of Arizona Press, c1985.

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw.  Plants on the Trail with Lewis and Clark. New York: Clarion Book, c2003.

Rea, Amadeo M. At the Desert's Green Edge: an Ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c1997.

Rhode, David. Native Plants of Southern Nevada. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, c2002.

Scully, Virginia. A Treasury of American Indian Herbs: Their Lore and Their Use for Food, Drugs, and Medicine. New York: Crown, 1970.

Smith, Harlan I. Ethnobotany of the Gitksan Indians of British Columbia. Hull, Quebec: Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1997.

Snow, Alice Micco. Healing Plants: Medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians. Gainesville: U. Press of Florida, c2001.

Timbrook, Janice. Chumash Ethnobotany: Plant Knowledge among the Chumash People of Southern California.  Berkeley, California: Heydey Books, c2007.

Turner, Nancy. Food Plants of Interior First Peoples. Vancouver: UBC Press, c1997.

Turner, Nancy. Plants of Haida Gwaii. Winlaw, BC: Nono Nis Press, 2004.

Waugh, F. W. Iroquois Foods and Food Preparation. Ottawa Govt. Printing Bureau, 1916.

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