This year we are dialed up to conduct an inventory of remaining cultural/historical and medicinal plant species utilized by Native Americans and ... plants of the Great Plains for food, medicine ...

Native wildflowers and grasses have a rich history here on the Great Plains ... of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region by Melvin Gilmore and Medicinal Plants of the Prairie ...

However, a program of mass slaughter by settlers and the US government to weaken resistance to expansion into Indian territories ... habitat that medicinal and rare plants need.

they ate a varied diet rich in plants, they were widely spread out, and they actively cared for the disadvantaged members of their societies. "The Plains Indians had a remarkable record of ...