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Decoction of powdered leaves used externally for various internal pains.
Infusion of leaves used externally for rheumatism.
Poultice of pounded bough tips and eulachon grease applied to the back and chest for rheumatism.
Poultice of pounded bough tips and eulachon grease applied to the back and chest for a swollen neck.
Western Redcedar; Cupressaceae
Simple decoction, compound decoction or infusion of leaf taken and used internally for coughs.
Very soft bark used to bind wounds and cover poultices.
Simple decoction, compound decoction or infusion of leaf taken and used externally for stomach pain.
Poultice of pounded bough tips and eulachon grease applied to the back and chest for stomach pains.
Infusion of leaves used externally for heart trouble.
Poultice of pounded bough tips and eulachon grease applied to the back and chest for heart trouble.
Infusion of leaves used externally for swollen neck.
Poultice of pounded bough tips and eulachon grease applied to the back and chest for bronchitis.
Chewed bark or decoction of bark taken to induce menstruation.
Decoction of small limbs used for tuberculosis.
Decoction of plant tips and roots taken as a cold medicine.
Buds chewed for toothaches.
Moxa of inner bark used as a counter irritant for the skin.
Infusion of pounded, bough tip leaves in cold water taken for diarrhea.
Infusion of green bark juice used for medicine.
Decoction of branches taken as a tuberculosis medicine.
Poultice of inner bark applied to carbuncles.
Western Redcedar; Cupressaceae
Shredded bark used to cauterize sores and swellings.
Sticks broken in front of the eye for sties.
Shredded bark used to cauterize sores and swellings.
Compound poultice of leaves applied to sore backs.
Tips chewed by men to avoid nausea while burying a corpse.
Chewed buds taken for sore lungs.
Infusion of boughs taken for coughs.
Bark pounded until soft as cotton and used to rub the face.
Leaves used for diarrhea.
Infusion of boughs used for colds.
Infusion of boughs used for coughs.
Infusion of boughs sweetened and used for children with colds.
Infusion of boughs sweetened and used for children with coughs.
Infusion of boughs used to soak painful joints from arthritis and rheumatism.
Weak infusion of boughs taken for painful joints from arthritis and rheumatism.
Decoction of boughs and three plants used for washing the skin and hair during sweatbathing.
Infusion of boughs used as a hair wash for dandruff and scalp "germs."
Infusion of boughs considered toxic in large doses.
Decoction of boughs and three plants taken as a sweathouse tonic.
Weak infusion of boughs taken as a sweathouse tonic.
Wood made into shamanistic soul catchers to use in ritual healing.
Infusion of green bark juice used for medicine.
Infusion of twigs used as a wash for venereal disease sores.
Infusion of seeds and twigs taken for fevers.
Infusion of bark and twigs taken for kidney trouble.
Infusion of twigs used as a wash for venereal disease sores.
Decoction of leaves taken for coughs.
Decoction of buds used as a gargle.
Compound decoction of twigs taken after childbirth.
Decoction of old or green cones taken for leprosy.
Tree or spruce tree said to cause vivid dreams for those who slept under them.
Branches used to make fish traps became "fish flavored" and the sticks were boiled for broth.
Pitch used as chewing gum.
Spring cambium pressed into cakes and dried for storage.
Spring cambium eaten fresh.
Cambium dried and eaten in spring.
Cambium eaten fresh in spring.
Leaves and twigs used as a green dye.
Inner bark used to make baskets.
Inner bark used to make capes and shaman collars.
Inner bark used to make mats.
Inner bark used for sponges.
Bark coarsely shredded and plaited into skirts, capes and dresses for women.
Bark finely shredded and used as padding for infants' cradles, sanitary pads and towels.
Bark used for basketry.
Roots used for coiled and imbricated baskets.
Wood used for house planks, posts and roof boards.
Wood used for canoes.
Bark used for clothing, sanitary napkins and towels.
Limbs used to make rope.
Bark used to pad cradles.
Bark strips used to make baskets.
Inner bark strips used for basketry.
Bark sheets used for roofing.
Inner bark strips used for cordage.
Bark sheets used for tarpaulins.
Inner bark strips used for mat making.
Inner bark strips used for basketry.
Inner bark strips used for cordage.
Inner bark strips used for mat making.
Bark used for basketry.
Branches used in basketry.
Roots used as the main structural elements in baskets.
Bark used to partition long houses and make temporary shelters.
Bark used for roofing.
Wood used to make dancing platforms.
Wood used for house posts and planks in traditional house construction.
Bark used to cover canoes to keep the rain out.
Wood used to carve canoes.
Bark used to make hats of various types.
Inner bark used to make rain capes.
Bark woven into hip length leggings to wear through deep snow.
Branches twisted together to make a type of rope used to tie covers to storage boxes.
Bark used to make baby cradles.
Bark used to make mats to sit on.
Inner bark used to make blankets.
Very long, straight branches or withes used to make baskets.
Cleaned, finely split inner bark used to weave baskets.
Wood prized as a material for house construction: shakes, shingles and poles.
Wood prized as a material for carving, especially canoes.
Cleaned, finely split inner bark used to weave capes, skirts and aprons.
Shredded inner bark used for diapers.
Very long, straight branches or withes used to make ropes.
Cleaned, finely split inner bark used to weave mats.
Finely beaten bark used as a sponge.
Roots split and used to make baskets.
Used for house construction.
Bark used to make wigwams, summer houses and hunting lodges.
Used to make dugout canoes.
Bark inner Fibers formerly used to make clothing.
Inner bark shredded and used to make skirts.
Bark used to make an overcoat for fishing in stormy weather.
Twigs and roots twisted and used as ropes.
Bark used to line cradles.
Twigs used for drying the body after a bath.
Roots split, peeled and used to make water tight baskets.
Wood used to make canoe frames.
Wood used for building homes.
Wood used for making canoes.
Bark used to make clothing.
Bark used to make ropes.
Roots and bark used to make baskets.
Fibrous bark used to make baskets.
Long, straight branches used for weaving baskets.
Roots washed, scorched over a fire, skinned, split in two, scraped and used to make baskets.
Shredded bark used for paint brushes.
Long, straight branches used to make nets for tying wall boards onto house frames.
Wood steamed for flexibility and malleability and used to make canoes.
Inner bark used to make clothing.
Roots and bark used to make hats.
Fibrous bark used to make hats.
Shredded bark used for diapers.
Roots washed, scorched over a fire, skinned, split in two, scraped and used to make hats.
Fibrous bark used to make twine and ropes.
Inner bark used to make mats and blankets.
Long, straight branches used for "sewing wood."
Shredded bark used for napkins, towels and bandages.
Inner bark used for basketry.
Wood used to make canoes.
Bark pounded until soft and made into clothes.
Used to make the lining and head bands of rain hats.
Bark used to line baby cradles.
Bark cut into narrow strips and woven into mats.
Bark used to make frame work of baskets.
Inner bark used to make sacks.
Roots used for making baskets.
Wood used for shingles, lumber, fence posts and for paving.
Bark used to make canoes.
Inner bark woven into cloth.
Blankinship, J. W. 1905 Native Economic Plants of Montana. Bozeman.
Inner bark used to make cords for fishnets.
Roots used to make baskets.
Bark formerly used to make lean-to shelters while camping.
Bark used to cover the roofs of semi-subterranean houses.
Wood hollowed out with fire, smoothed, trimmed and used to make canoes.
Wood used to make cradle boards.
Young limbs twisted and used to make basket frames and ribs.
Bark used to make baskets.
Inner bark strips used to make storage baskets and for basket bottoms, rims and ribs.
Wood used for houseposts and wall and roofing houseboards