English

goosefoot

Scientific Name

Chenopodium spp

Arapaho

niico’cutee’


Translation of the Arapaho

 

‘tastes salty’

(?)

Goosefoot and the Arapaho

F. V. Hayden gives the above name, and identifies it with a "chenopodiaceous" shrub or salty weed. The Cheyenne used Chenopodium alum (called 'salt sage' by them) as a source of salt.