English

greasewood

Scientific Name

Sarcobatus vermiculatus

Arapaho

Translation of the Arapaho

‘snake bush’

Greasewood in the Arapaho

Other: hunting and fishing item.

Drug: poison. In the “Life of Medicine Grass,” he reports that this wood was used to make arrows, and was called ‘snake bush’ because wounds from these arrows were characterized by a great deal of swelling.