Based on 25 years of research that combed every historical and anthropological record of Native American ways, this unprecedented culinary dictionary documents

Describing the medicinal uses of over 2,700 plants by 218 Native American tribes, the author organizes his extensive research into eighty-two categories--includ

"Food Plants of the Sanoran Desert includes not only plants such as gourds and legumes but also unexpected food sources such as palms, lilies, and cattails, all

Describes Chippewa techniques of gathering and preparing nearly two hundred wild plants of the Great Lakes area and provides information on their medicinal usag

This, the first, in-depth survey of Native American Indian foodways is an amazing chronicle of both human development over thousands of years and American histo