Navajo ethnobotany

See also Zuni ethnobotany, and Native American ethnobotany.

This is a list of plants utilized in Navajo culture.

A

  • Abronia fragrans (snowball-sand verbena), used medicinally for boils[1] and taken internally when a spider was swallowed.[2] The Kayenta Navajo use it as a cathartic, for insect bites, as a sudorific, as an emetic, for stomach cramps, and as a general panacea.[3] The Ramah Navajo use it as a lotion for sores or sore mouth and to bathe perspiring feet.[4]
  • Acer glabrum var. glabrum (Rocky Mountain maple), an infusion of which is used by the Ramah Navajo for swellings, and also as a "life medicine", or panacea.[5]
  • Acer negundo (box elder), the wood of which is used to make tubes for bellows.[6]
  • Achillea millefolium (western yarrow), occidentalis variety used as a wash for cuts and saddle sores, and used as a "life medicine" for impaired vitality. Also used as a tonic.[7] The Kayenta Navajo use it for headaches caused by weak or sore eyes, and as a lotion around eyes that are sore from wearing ceremonial masks. They also use it as a febrifuge.[8] Ramah Navajo use it as a ceremonial emetic.[9]
  • Acourtia wrightii (brownfoot), used by the Kayenta Navajo for difficult labor and as a postpartum medicine.[10]
  • Adiantum capillus-veneris (southern maidenhair fern), an infusion of which is used by the Kayenta Navajo as a lotion for bumblebee and centipede stings. They also use an infusion to treat insanity, and smoke the plant for the same purpose.[11]
  • Agastache pallidiflora (New Mexico giant hyssop), used by the Ramah as a ceremonial chant lotion, for bad coughs, and the dried, pulverized root used as dusting powder for sores or cankers. The Ramah also use it a fumigant for "deer infection", as a febrifuge, and to protect from witches.[12]
  • Agave, the baked fibers of which are squeezed, and the liquid drunk. The heads are baked or boiled, pounded into flat sheets, sun dried and stored for future use. The baked, dried heads are also boiled and made into an edible paste, eaten whole, or made into soup. The leaves are also boiled and eaten. The young, tender flowering stalks are and shoots are roasted and eaten as well. The fibers are used to make rope, the leaves are used to line baking pits, and the sharp pointed leaf tips are used to make basketry awls.[12]
  • Agave utahensis (Utah agave), the fibers of which are used to make blankets.[12]
  • Ageratina herbacea (fragrant snakeroot), cold infusion taken and used as a lotion for headache and fever by the Ramah Navajo.[12]
  • Agoseris aurantiaca (orange agoseris), taken by the Ramah as a ceremonial emetic. A cold infusion is taken and used as lotion for arrow or bullet wounds, for "deer infection", and for protection against witches. Wet leaves rubbed on swollen arms, wrists or ankles. The root is used a life medicine.[13]
  • Allionia incarnata, a cold infusion of which is used by the Ramah as a lotion for swellings.[12]
  • Androsace septentrionalis, (pygmyflower rockjasmine), used by the Kayenta for the bewitchment and pain from witches' arrows.[12]
  • Antennaria, used in ceremonies for protection from witchcraft.[14]
  • Artemisia tridentata, vaporized to treat headaches.[15][16] It is also used for colds, as a febrifuge, and in religious and medicinal ceremonies. A decoction is used for stomachaches, and an infusion is taken by women to help with childbirth. The plant is also taken before long hikes to rid the body of lingering, undesirable things. The Kayenta Navajo use it as a laxative, and an infusion of the plant is taken and used as a lotion for snakebites. The Ramah Navajo use a decoction of the leaves for postpartum pain, and for "big cough". They also apply a poultice of the wet leaves to swellings, use it diaphoretic in sweatbaths, and apply a cold infusion of the leaves as a lotion for cuts on sheep.[17]

B

C

D

  • Dalea candida, candida variety (white prairieflower), used by the Ramah for stomachache, for "life medicine", especially for fever, and a compound decoction used to treat "snake infection" in sheep.[22]

E

F

  • Fendlera rupicola, an infusion of the inner bark is used as a remedy when were swallowed.[24] Also used to kill head lice.[24] and as a cathartic.[25] This plant is also used in plumeway, nightway, male shootingway and windway ceremonies,[25] and the wood is used to make arrow shafts.[24][26]
  • Frasera, combined with Ceanothus fendleri to make a medicine applied internally or externally, for "alarm and nervousness".[20]

G

I

J

L

P

T

  • Thelesperma megapotamicum used to make a yellow dye, and as medicinal tisane.[12] and in their plumeway, nightway, male shootingway and windway ceremonies,[25] and to make arrow shafts.[24][26] It is also used to make notched and smooth sticks which are rubbed together in their mountain chant ceremony, and to make weaving forks, planting sticks, and knitting needles.[24][26] They also boil the plant with juniper berries, pinon buds, and cornmeal for ceremonial consumption.[25]

V

Z

See also

References

  1. ^ Hocking, George M. 1956 Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. El Palacio 56:146–165 (p. 158)
  2. ^ Elmore, Francis H. 1944 Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Santa Fe, NM. School of American Research (p. 46)
  3. ^ Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris 1951 The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho. Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press (p. 21)
  4. ^ Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1–94 (p. 26)
  5. ^ Vestal, p. 36)
  6. ^ Elmore p. 62
  7. ^ Elmore, p.79
  8. ^ Wyman and Harris p. 44
  9. ^ Vestal, p.47
  10. ^ Wyman and Harris, p.49
  11. ^ Wyman and Harris, p.14
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "BRIT - Native American Ethnobotany Database". naeb.brit.org.
  13. ^ http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Agoseris +aurantiaca
  14. ^ Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1–94 (p. 47)
  15. ^ Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, Gregory L. Tilford, ISBN 0-87842-359-1 [page needed]
  16. ^ Kay, Margarita (1996). Healing with Plants. University of Arizona Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN 9780186516465.
  17. ^ http://herb.umd.umich.edu/herb/search.pl?searchstring=Artemisia +tridentata
  18. ^ Wyman and Harris, p. 45
  19. ^ Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris, 1951, The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho, Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press, page 16
  20. ^ a b Elmore, Francis H. (1976). Trees and Shrubs of the Southwest Uplands. Western National Parks Association. p. 121. ISBN 0-911408-41-X.
  21. ^ Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1–94 (p. 19)
  22. ^ Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1–94 (p. 33)
  23. ^ Vestal, Paul A., 1952, The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1–94, page 28
  24. ^ a b c d e Elmore, Francis H. 1944 Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Santa Fe, NM. School of American Research (p. 51)
  25. ^ a b c d Wyman, Leland C. and Stuart K. Harris 1951 The Ethnobotany of the Kayenta Navaho. Albuquerque. The University of New Mexico Press (p. 25)
  26. ^ a b c Weber, Steven A. and P. David Seaman 1985 Havasupai Habitat: A. F. Whiting's Ethnography of a Traditional Indian Culture. Tucson. The University of Arizona Press (p. 221)
  27. ^ Hocking, George M. (1956). "Some Plant Materials Used Medicinally and Otherwise by the Navaho Indians in the Chaco Canyon, New Mexico" (PDF). El Palacio. 63: 151. Retrieved December 29, 2012.
  28. ^ Goldblatt Peter (1980). "Uneven Diploid Chromosome Numbers and Complex Heterozygosity in Homeria (Iridaceae)". Systematic Botany. 5 (4): 337–340. doi:10.2307/2418516. JSTOR 2418516.
  29. ^ McCabe, Melvina; Gohdes, Dorothy; Morgan, Frank; Eakin, Joanne; Sanders, Margaret; Schmitt, Cheryl (2005). "Herbal Therapies and Diabetes Among Navajo Indians". Diabetes Care. 28 (6): 1534–1535. doi:10.2337/diacare.28.6.1534-a. PMID 15920089.
  30. ^ "Nevada 10". www.mobot.org.
  31. ^ Lycium pallidum. University of Michigan Ethnobotany.
  32. ^ Jones, Peter N. (2007-12-06). "The Native American Church, Peyote, and Health: Expanding Consciousness for Healing Purposes". Contemporary Justice Review. 10 (4): 411–425. doi:10.1080/10282580701677477. ISSN 1028-2580.
  33. ^ U. Michigan-Dearborn: Ethnobotany . accessed 1.12.2012
  34. ^ Elmore, Francis H. 1944 Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Santa Fe, NM. School of American Research (p. 23)
  35. ^ Elmore, Francis H. (1944). Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Monograph Series: 1(7). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico. 136 p.
  36. ^ "Psilostrophe tagetina". University of Michigan Dearborn. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
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