Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region #222427

In savage and barbarous life the occupation of first importance is the quest of food. In the earliest. Times people had to possess a practical working knowledge of plants with regard to their utiliza tion for food; those which were edible, those by which shift could be made at need to avert famine, and those which on account of deleterious properties must be avoided at all times, came to be known by experience of all the people in their range.