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done.
They also boiled the camas with a few fish eggs or whale oil. In later years when the Indians had
sugar, they cooked them like pudding and put sugar and cream on. The camas bulb must have a thickening
substance in it, as it is also called sago.
Another food we watched the Indians gather was the cow parsnips or Heracleum canatum and the
horsetail blossom. Mrs. Tommy Payne showed me how they ate the cow parsnips. She gathered the
new blossom stalks before they bloomed. Then she stripped the skin off, which comes off like the skin
of rhubarb, and started eating on one end like a stick of celery. I didn’t like the flavor. The blossom of
the horsetail is light yellow and brown, about six or seven inches high when they gather it. It is cooked
like asparagus and the herb books say it is high in Vitamin A. It is a shame that civilization has made the
Indians feel embarrassed to be caught gathering some of these wild foods. I have seen some stop along
the highway and run to the bank and grab a couple of handfuls and then run for their car before anyone
caught them…..
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Lower Hoh River.
Farrand, Livingston. (1919) “Quileute Tales,” Vol 32. Journal of American Folklore, p.251-79.
Frachtenberg, Leo (1916) Unpublished ms notebooks on the Quileute in the American Philosophical
Library, Philadelphia.
Gunther, Erna (1973) Ethnobotany of Western Washington (Rev. Ed. with Appendix by J.V. Powell and
Fred Woodruff) UWPress: Seattle).
Pettitt, George A. (1955) The Quileute of LaPush: 1775-1945. Vol 14:1 Anthropological records.
Powell, Jay V. (1969-present). Quileute ethnographic and linguistic notes, taken in LaPush.
_____ (1997), “Don’t Waste the Environment” QTS Cultural Enrichment Big Book.
_____ and Fred Woodruff (1976) “Quileute Dictionary.” Northwest Anthropological Research Notes, Vol
10:1.
_____ and Dell Hymes (1993) “Don’t Waste the Environment – An Interpretive Re-consideration of a
Quileute Discourse on the Natural World,” unpub paper given at 25th ICSL, Vancouver.
_____ and Lillian Pullen (1989) “Conversations with Nature” QTS Cultural Enrichment Big Book.
Pullen, Royal (1980) an unpub. interview transcribed by Heather Hennum in 2002.
Ray, Verne F. (c1954). Quileute Ms Notes (random notes in author’s archival files made while preparing
the Quileute case for the Indian Court of Claims; reviewed by Powell in 1988) c1954.
Reagan, Albert B.(1935) “Some Myths of the Hoh and Quillayute Indians,” Transactions of the Kansas
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