Historical Bibliography Updated: July 14, 2026

Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri River region. Thirty-third annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1911-1912.

GILMORE, Melvin Randolph (1868 – 1940)

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919.

Medicinal and edible plants used by the Dakota, Omaha/Ponca, Winnebago and Pawnee peoples. Gilmore reports on 180 plants, and offers 16 pages of tables of names in various languages. Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

Facet Tags

Traditional & Indigenous
United States
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Race, Ethnicity & Colonial Medicine

Subjects

BOTANY › Ethnobotany COUNTRIES, CONTINENTS AND REGIONS › United States › American Midwest NATIVE AMERICANS & Medicine

Catalog Metadata	Reference Information
Entry Number	#9287
Permanent Link	https://beta.historyofmedicine.com/id/11469
External URL	uses-of-plants-by-the-indians-of-the-missouri-river-region-thirtythird-annual-report-of-the-bureau-of-american-ethnology-19111912

Geographic Context

Publication place: Washington, DC