Download - Native american uses for local
![Page 1: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Local Trees and Shrubsof
Washington State
Native American Usage
![Page 2: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
W e s t e r n W h i t e P i n e ( T h e T r e e I t s S e l f )
• L e a v e s - g r o w i n c l u s t e r s o f f i v e n e e d l e s , 2 t o 4 i n c h e s l o n g , b l u e -g r e e n , 2 t o 6 w h i t e b a n d s o f s t o m a t a o n t h e u n d e r s u r f a c e
• B a r k - i s s m o o t h g r e e n - g r a y o n y o u n g s t e m s , l a t e r b r e a k i n g u p i n t o d a r k g r a y r e c t a n g u l a r p l a t e s
• I t s h e i g h t i s 1 2 0 t o 1 6 0 f e e t
• W h e r e t o f i n d i t - i n t h e c a s c a d e s a n d O l y m p i c m o u n t a i n s , i t a l s o g r o w s i n n o r t h e a s t e r n W a s h i n g t o n a n d i n s o m e s c a t t e r e d l o c a t i o n s i n w e s t e r n W a s h i n g t o n
w w w . c f r . w a s h i n g t o n . e d u / C l a s s e s . e s c . 2 0 0 / p i n u s _ m o n t i c o l a . h t m / p i m o l . g i f
w w w . o r s t . e d u / i n s t r u c t / f o r 2 4 1 / c o n / s p p / b i g / w w p n b g 5 4 . G I F
![Page 3: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
Western White Pine(Its uses)
• To relieve aches and pains,young shoots boiled and a bath was taken in the water.
biology.uoregon.edu/reference/ treeid/whitepine.html
www.wa.gov/dnr/htdocs/ rp/forhealth/ wpbrseedling.jpg
![Page 4: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Vetch• This American Vetch
belongs to a group of annual and perennial plants that were used for forage, food, and fodder.
• The Vetch is a leguminous plant with small flowers that is often used for silage or fodder, Genus; Vincia.
![Page 5: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Native American Uses
• The Native Americans soaked the roots and used it as a hair wash.
![Page 6: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Camas
• Most important of Idaho’s indigenous food plants and a contributing factor of 1878.
• Native people congregated at the camas meadows in spring tell late summer to trade, socialize, and gather sweet nutritious bulbs on the Camas plant.
![Page 7: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Native American Uses
• Techniques of gathering and burning of camas meadows were a form of early plant husbandry.
• Camas was best prepared by slow cooking for several days in a earths oven.
• It was often dried for later use or trade.
![Page 8: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
The Sword Fern
Sword Ferns are used for… Mattresses Lining baking pits The leaves look like small swords. Sword Fern roots can be baked
and eaten.
![Page 9: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Native American’s Use For Sword Fern
Native Americans would use the spore on the back of a Sword Fern’s leaf to ease cuts and burns. Kind of like ointment.
SPORES
![Page 10: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The Blue Elder Berry
The Blue Elder Berries are 15 cm long.
The Elder Berry color varies from blue , red, white,yellow,black and purple.
It grows in the wild, not captivity
It grows in shrubs
They grow white cream colored flowers in spring
![Page 11: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Native Uses
Blue Elder Berries can be used for sweet jelly.
The Berries are also used for pies.
There’re also useful for elegant wine.
It’s most useful use is it’s natural dye.
![Page 12: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Broad Leaved Cattail
• The Broad leaved Cattail is brown and shaped like a cigar,and made of tightly stiff stalks.
• The male Broad leaved Cattail is short, stubby,and has a fluffy tail which will disappear in later summer.
• There habitat is marshes and sallow edges of ponds.
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/types/images/cattail.jpg
![Page 13: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Native American Uses
• The natives used this plant to make food.Similar to Asparagus eaten like corn on the cob, and could be boiled like potatoes.They even make it into flour.
• If they needed insulations for walls they could use the Cattail.
http://www.ericschreiber.com/photography/cattail.jpg
![Page 14: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Bark: The color is Reddish/Brown. This bark is broken into large loose scales and is corn-flaky and crackles when pressed or walked on.
Fruit: A pendent cone, 2 ½ to 4 inches long.
There are needles on this tree that are sharp and prickly.
![Page 15: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Native American Uses The word Sitka Spruce is
called Piecea Sitchensis in Native American language.
The sprig of the tree is used as a charm for whaling.
The roots are used for basketry, rain hats, and a rope for whaling.
The pitch is used for canoe caulking.
![Page 16: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
The Pacific YewBy: Tuesday
• The Pacific Yew is found in the mountains of Northeastern Washington, also from the coast to the Cascade Divide, Blue Mountains, and sometimes along streams of Eastern Washington.
• The time of the growth is very slow.
• One of the important characteristics are the single needles, which give the twig a flattened look.
![Page 17: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Native uses Of The Pacific Yew
• Used to make bows, arrows, and whale harpoons.
• Used for canoe paddles, and war clubs.
• Made into wedges for splitting logs, household utensils, combs, drum frames, digging sticks for roots and clams.
![Page 18: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
By Sarina
• The Douglas fir is very big.
• It has long flat needles.• There are two kinds of
Douglas fir.• The coastal and the
mountain.
![Page 19: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
• The Douglas fir is used to make salmon spears.
• It’s bark is boiled to heal infections.
• Also the bark is boiled to use as die so the fish can’t see the net.
![Page 20: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Vine Maple
• Leaves turn a bright red in the fall
• They grow in clumps• There twigs go like
vines
By Cortney
![Page 21: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Native Uses
• Vine maple was used for weaving baskets
• The vine maple was also used to make snowshoes
• It was also used to make salmon tongs
![Page 22: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Big Leaf Maple
• Bark was made into rope. • Used leaves to lay fish on
while cleaning them.• Used to build framework
for sweat lodges.
![Page 23: Native american uses for local](https://reader036.vdocuments.us/reader036/viewer/2022081515/555c27f9d8b42a0b418b4dfa/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Big Leaf Maple
• The little buds that fall off are a type of seed.