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.