Taste of Heritage-Crow Indian Recipes and herbal medicine

Alma was taught the Crow traditions by her maternal grandmother,
Pretty Shield. The knowledge gained from this education that was
further influenced by her Christian upbringing, formal food-service
training, and interest in herbalism makes Alma's understanding of
foods and herbs unique and this book uniquely important.
Crow ethnobotany has not been widely shared and is not widely
known. Although scattered references to the edible and medicinal
uses of plants by the Crow exist, the first published work on uses
of Crow plants was J. W. Blankinship's 1905 Native Economic Plants of
Montana, which lists Crow uses for thirteen plants.1 A more insightful
work was written by a Crow woman, Joy Yellowtail Toineeta, whose
1970 master’s thesis, titled Absarog-Issawua (From the Land of the Crow
Indians), is the most detailed ethnobotany of the Crow and discusses
sixty-four species of plants.2 Unfortunately, this work has never
circulated beyond the few of us who have borrowed it from the
Montana State University library.