Mashantucket Pequot Research Library

Ethnobotany

A Bibliography

 

 

 

Anderson, Virginia D. "King Philip’s Herds: Indians, Colonists, and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England." William and Mary Quarterly 51/4 October 1994: 601-24.

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Bader, Charles, D. "Creating and Restoring Wetlands." Erosion Control May/June 1996: 22-27.

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Baker, A. & H. Izard. "New England Farmers and the Marketplace, 1780-1865: A Case Study." Agricultural History 65/3 summer 1991.

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Bennett, M.K. "Food Economy of the New England Indians, 1605-75." Journal of Political Economy 63/5 1955: 369-97.

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Brodeur, D.D. "Evolution of the New England Town Common, 1630-1966." Professional Geographer 19/6 November 1967: 313-18.

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Bromley, Stanley. "Original Forest Types of Southern New England." Ecological Monographs 5/1: 61-89.

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Brooks, Harlow. "The Medicine of the American Indians." Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2/5, 1929: 509-37.

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Brugam, Richard B. "Pollen Indicators of Land-Use Change in Southern Connecticut." Quaternary Research 9 1978: 349-62.

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Burk, William R. "Puffball Usages Among North American Indians." Journal of Ethnobiology 3 1983: 55-62.

STACKS: Serials

 

Butler, Eva L 1. "Algonkian Culture and Use of Maize in Southern New England." Bulletin of the Archeological Society of Connecticut 22 December 1948: 3-39.

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Ceci, Lynn. “Watchers of the Pleiades: Ethnoastronomy Among Native Cultivators in Northeastern North America.” Ethnohistory 25, 1978: 301-17.

STACKS: Serials

 

Cobb, Carolus M. “Some Medical Practices among the New England Indians and Early Settlers.” Boston Medical and Surgical Journal July 26, 1917: 97-105.

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Conrad, Jon M. "Management of a Multiple Cohort Factory." Agricultural Economics 64/3 August 1982: 463-74.

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Croom, Edward Mortimer J. Medicinal Plants of the Lumbee Indians. PhD. Dissertation. Raleigh, NC: University of North Carolina, 1982.

STACKS: RV 5 .C7 1982

 

Day, Gordon, M 1. "Indian as an Ecological Factor in the Northeastern Forest", Ecology, v.34, no.2, April 1953, pp.329-46.

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DeGraaf, R.M. "Herpetofaunal Species Composition and Relative Abundance Among Three New England Forest Types." Forest Ecology and Management 32 May 1990: 155-65.

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Densmore, Frances. How Indians use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts. New York: Dover, 1974.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .C6 D415 1974

 

_______. Strength of the Earth: The Classic Guide to Ojibwe Uses of Native Plants. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2005.

STACKS: E 99 .C6 D415 2005

 

Duke, James A. Handbook of Northeastern Indian Medicinal Plants. Lincoln, MA: Quarterman Publications, 1986.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .B7 D85 1986

 

Dunwiddie, P.W. "Postglacial Vegetation History of Coastal Islands in Southern New England." National Geographic Research 6/2 Spring 1990: 178-95.

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Fisher, R.T. "New England’s Forests: Biological Factors." American Geographical Society Special Publication 16 1933: 213-23.

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Foster, D.R. "Land-Use History (1730-1990) and Vegetation Dynamics in Central New England." Journal of Ecology 80 1992: 753-72.

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Galinat, Walter C. "Corn, Columbus, and Culture." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 36/1 Autumn 1992: 1-12.

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Glasko, F. "Succotash." Narragansett Dawn 1, 1935: 22-3.

MULTI-MEDIA: Microfiche

 

Harper, Roland M. "Changes in the Forest Area of New England in Three Centuries." Journal of Forestry 16 1918: 442-52.

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Harvard, Dr.V. "Drink Plants of the North American Indians." Torrey Botanical Club Bulletin 23/2 1896: 33-46.

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Hasenstab, Robert. "Wetlands as a Critical Variable in Predictive Modeling of Prehistoric Site Locations: A Case Study from the Passaic River Basin." Man in the Northeast 42 1991: 39-61.

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Herrick, James W. Iroquois Medical Botany. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .I7 H47 1995

 

Hutchens, Alma R. Indian Herbalogy of North America. Boston: Shambala, 1991.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .B7 H88 1991

 

Jeffreys, M.D.W. "Pre-Cloumbian Maize in the Old World from Portuguese Sources." IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Pre-conference Paper 0305) August-September 1973: 1-98.

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Jolicoeur, Catherine "Traditional Use of Herbs in Quebec." Potomac Herb Journal Winter 1971: 3-5.

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Katz, S.H.; M.L. Hediger and L.A. Valleroy. "The Anthropological and Nutritional Significance of Traditional Maize Processing Techniques in the New World." IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Pre-conference Paper 1762) August-September 1973: 1-19+tables.

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Kavasch, E.Barrie. American Indian Earth Sense: Herbaria of Ethnobotany and Ethnomycology. Washington, CT: Birdstone Publishers, 1996.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .B7 K38 1996

 

_______. Earth Wise: American Indian Traditional Uses of Native Northeast Trees. Washington, CT: Birdstone Publishers, 2000.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .B7 K385 2000

 

Klindienst, Patricia. The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

STACKS: SB 455 .K55 2006

 

Little, Nina Fletcher 1. "Some 18th Century Connecticut Landscapes." Art in America 37 October 1949: 202-11.

REFERENCE DESK: Article File

 

________ 2. "European Landscapes on Connecticut Overmantles." Connecticut Antiquarian 16 June 1964: 3-8.

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Lynas, Lothian. Medicinal and Food Plants of the North American Indians : a Bibliography. New York: Library of the New York Botanical Garden, 1972.

READING ROOM: Z 1209.2 .N67 M43 1972

 

Main, Jackson T. "Standards of Living and the Life Cycle in Colonial Connecticut." Journal of Economic History 43/1 March 1983: 159-65.

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McMahon, Sarah F. "All Things in Their Proper Season", Seasonal Rhythms of Diet in the 19th Century New England." Agricultural History 63/2 Spring 1989.

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McWeeney, Lucinda. "Reconstruction of the Mashantucket Pequot Cedar Swamp Paleoenvironment Using Plant Macrofossils, New England, USA." Coastally Restricted Forests. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998: 124-41.

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Mead, Nelson Prentiss "Land System of Connecticut Towns." Political Science Quarterly 21 March 1906: 59-76.

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Moerman, Daniel E. Native American Ethnobotany. Portland: Timber Press, 1998.

READING ROOM: REF E 98 .B7 M66 1998

 

Nicholas, George P 1. "Directions in Wetlands Search." Man in the Northeast 43 1992: 1-9.

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________ 3. "Putting Wetlands into Perspective., Man in the Northeast 42 1991: 29-38.

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________ 2. "Places and Spaces: Changing Patterns of Wetland use in Southern New England." Man in the Northeast 42 1991: 75-98.

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Patterson, Wm. & K. Sassaman. "Indian Fires in the Prehistory of New England." Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern N.A. New York: Plenum Press, 1988.

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Porsild, A. "Edible Roots and Berries of Northern Canada." Dept. of Mines and Resources. s.l.: National Museum of Canada, 1937: 1-17.

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Raup, Hugh M. "An Old Forest in Stonington, Connecticut." Rhodora 43 1941: 67-71.

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Reagan, Albert B. "Plants used by the Bois Fort Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians of Minnesota." Wisconsin Archaeologist 7/4, 1928: 230-48.

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Safford, Dr. Wm. E. "Foods Discovered with America." Scientific Monthly 21 1925: 181-6.

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Schwartz, Amy D. "Colonial New England Agriculture: Old Visions, New Directions." Agricultural History 69/3 1995: 454-84.

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Simon, Brona G. "Prehistoric Land Use and Changing Paleoecological Conditions at Titicut Swamp in Southeastern Massachusetts." Man in the Northeast 42 1991: 63-74.

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Stone, Eric. Medicine Among the American Indians. New York: Hoeber, 1932.

STACKS: E 98 .M4 S8 1932

 

Tantaquidgeon, Gladys. Folk Medicine of the Delaware and Related Algonkian Indians. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1977.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .D2 T2 1977

 

_______. A Study of Delaware Indian Medicine Practice and Folk Beliefs. Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Historical Commission, 1942.

READING ROOM: Local History E 99 .D2 T2 1942

 

Thorson, Robert M. "Postglacial History of a Cedar Swamp in Southeastern Connecticut." Journal of Paleolimnology 1991: 1-19.

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Willoughby, Charles C. "Houses and Gardens of the New England Indians." American Anthropologist 8, 1906: 115-32.

MULTI-MEDIA: Microfilm

 

Winthrop, John. "The Description, Culture, and Use of Maize." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 12/142: 1065-9.

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Witthoft, John. Green Corn Ceremonialism in the Eastern Woodlands. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1949.

READING ROOM: Pequot E 99 .W84 W58 1949

 

 

 

Revised January 2007 by the staff of the Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center, Information Resources Department