Dogwood:
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Cornus stolonifera
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red-osier dogwood
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kk'ʉkk'eze
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kk'ʉy'
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372
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May not be derived from kk'ʉy'3 (willow) but rather from kk'ʉy1 (pelvis or spread object)
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berry of the red-osier (American dogwood)
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nek'enle'een geege'
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een1
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32
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Lit. 'woodman's berry'
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Not eaten
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Cornus stolonifera
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Cottonwood:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Populus balsimifera
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balsam poplar
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t'egheł
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t'egheł5
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244
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Nelson - The Koyukon origin story for balsam poplar tells about a woman who heard a tale that was so sad and terrible that she began to cry and slit her skin. She became the balsam poplar with its deeply cut bark.
Good for smoking meat and fish
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cottonwood bark
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Nelson - "...used to make fish net floaters and may have been peeled in slabs for smokehouse floors and walls. The bark is also burned as mosquito smudges."
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buds
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Nelson- "Pitchy buds are boiled with spruce needles (or with highbush cranberries and rose hips) to make medicine for healing sores."
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Populus balsimifera
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Commandra:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Geocaulon lividum
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northern commandra
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naaggedle geege'
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geege
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184
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Lit. 'fox's berry'
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timberberry
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dogberry
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toadflax
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Geocaulon lividum
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Chokecherry:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Prunus sp.
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dodetl'edzee ch'ejege'
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tl'ets
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604
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Neologism for an introduced plant
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Prunus sp.
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Chives:
Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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| Allium schoenoprasum
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wild chives
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Described by Nelson but he did not give a Koyukon name for the plant
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Nelson - Eaten raw alone or mixed with fish
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Allium schoenoprasum
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Blueberry:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Vaccinium ulignosum
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nełyaaghe
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yo4
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698
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Lit. 'that which grows'
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Nelson - Notes that along with cranberries these are the most important plant food to the Koyukon Athbascans.
Marcotte - Average collection in Huslia in 1983 was two gallons per household.
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Vaccinium ulignosum |
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Baneberry:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Actacea rubra
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nełtene ch'ejege'
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ten5
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513
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Lit. 'thunder berry'
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Actacea rubra |
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Aspen:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Populus tremuloides
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quaking aspen
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t'egheł kk'ooge
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gheł5
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244
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Lit. 'tiny cottonwood, little cottonwood'
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Nelson notes that aspen is used much in the same way as balsam poplar.
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t'egheł yoze
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small, dry standing aspen
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t'egheł zooze'
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soos
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747
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Lit. 'conical cottonwood'
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Populus tremuloides
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Cloudberry:
Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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| Rubus chamaemorus
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Rubus chamaemorus |
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| By creation date