Plants in Arapaho

Sources on Arapaho Plant Names and Ethnobotany

Curtis, Edward. 1911. The North American Indian. Vol. 6. Cambridge, MA.

Dorsey, George. 1903. The Arapaho Sun Dance: The Ceremony of the Offerings Lodge. Field Columbian Museum, Publication 75, Anthro. Series, Vol. 4. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum.

Dorsey, George and Alfred Kroeber. 1997. Traditions of the Arapaho. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska. [Originally published 1903, Chicago: Field Columbian Museum.]

Hayden, F.V. 1863. On the ethnography and philology of the Indian Tribes of the Missouri Valley. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 12. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.

Hilger, Sister Inez. 1952. Arapaho Child Life and its Cultural Background. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 148. Washington, DC: Gov’t Printing Office.

Kroeber, Alfred. 1983. The Arapaho. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska. [Originally published 1902-07, New York: American Museum of Natural History].

Mooney, James. 1896. The ghost-dance religion and the Sioux outbreak of 1890. Buearu of American Ethnology, Fourteenth Annual Report, Part 2, 641-1110. Washington, DC: Gov’t Printing Office.

Murphey, Edith Van Allen. 1991. Indian Uses of Native Plants. Glenwood, IL: Meyerbooks
[Originally published Ft. Bragg, CA: Mendocino County Historical Society, 1959]

Nickerson, Gifford 1966. “Some Data on Plains and Great Basin Indian Uses of Certain Native Plants.” Tebiwa 9:45-51.

Salzmann, Zdenek. 1983. Dictionary of Contemporary Arapaho Usage. Ethete: Northern Arapaho Tribe.

Schoolcraft, Henry. 1853. Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo and Co.

Stewart, Jim. 2002. “Edible and Medicinal flora Used by Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Groups in the Bighorn and Wind River Basins of North Central Wyoming”. Unpublished manuscript, dated September, 2002. Obtained from author.

Toll, Oliver. 1914. manuscript listing sixty Arapaho plant names. Colorado Historical Society, MSS 536, Box 7, “Kroeber” file.

Toll, Oliver. 1914. “Report on a visit of Arapaho Indians to Estes Park, 1914.” Colorado Historical Society, MSS R470.3 Ar14to.

Toll, Oliver. 1962. Arapaho Names and Trails: A Report of a 1914 Pack Trip. Privately published by Oliver W. Toll. [Re-issued 2003 by Rocky Mountain Nature Assocation].