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Western Red Cedar Used to make dugout canoes, house planks and posts, totems, baskets, clothing, and tools. Excellent fuel; burns with little smoke. |
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Western Hemlock Used for various dyes. Easy to carve. Made into spoons, combs, wedges, spearshafts and bedding material. Medicinal: salve for sunburn prevention and tea for internal injuries. |
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Sitka Spruce Inner bark eaten fresh or dried into cakes with berries. The pitch was chewed for pleasure and used for burns, boils, and skin irritations, colds, gonorrhea, and syphilis. |
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Douglas Fir Made into spear handles, harpoon shafts, fire tongs. Medicinal: salve for wounds and skin irritants. |
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Grand Fir Branches were woven into head dresses and costumes, incense and fish hooks. Medicinal: boiled needles into tea for colds. |
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Black Cottonwood: the inner bark was eaten. Young shoots used to make sweatlodge frames. Medicinal: Rotten leaves were boiled and used in a bath for body pains. |
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Red Alder Best fuel for smoking fish. Used to make feast bowls, masks, rattles. The bark was made into red or orange dye. Medicinal: the bark was used for tuberculosis and respiratory disorders. Strong antibiotic properties. |
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Big Leaf Maple Used to make paddles Medicinal : used to treat sore throats. |
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Douglas Maple Used to make snowshoe frames Medicinal : bark used to make an antidote for poisening. |
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Vine Maple Used to make snowshoe frames, drum hoops, spoons and dishes. |
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Garry Oak Acorns were eaten. Medicinal : Bark used in "4 barks" medicine for tuberculosis. |
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Beaked Hazelnut Edible nuts. Shoots twisted into rope. |
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Pacific Crab Apple Apples eaten fresh or stored. Medicinal : the bark was used as a treatment for eyes, stomach and digestive tract ailments. Bark contains cyanide - producing compounds. |
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Pacific Yew The seeds are poisenous. Prized wood; ideal for carving: bowls, wedges, clubs, paddles, knives, boxes and dishes. Some people's smoked dried Yew needles. |
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Western White Pine Medicinal : the bark was made into tea used for stomach disorders, tuberculosis, rheumatism, and to purify the blood. Also applied to cuts and sores. |
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Shore Pine The roots were made into rope. Sheets of bark were used as splints for broken limbs. Medicinal : the gum was applied to cuts, or treatment for heart pain and rheumatism. |
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Pacific Madrone Medicinal : the bark and leaves are used for colds, stomach problems, post-child birth contraceptive, tuberculosis and spitting up blood. |
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Paper Birch The bark was peeled of the tree in large, flexible, water proof sheets. And made into baskets and canoes. |
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Cascara Medicinal : bark was boiled into tea or syrup and consumed as a string laxative. Also used for sores or swellings. |
