Ethnobotany of the Coos, Lower Umpqua, and Siuslaw Indians

by Patricia Whereat Phillips

2016 147 pages eng

Myrtlewood is most often thought of as beautiful wood for woodworking, but to Native people on the southern Oregon coast it was an important source of food. The roasted nuts taste like bitter chocolate, coffee, and burnt popcorn. The roots of Skunk Cabbage provided another traditional food source, w…