The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life

Worcester, Donald E.

doi:10.1080/03612759.1973.9945857

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“…Medicinal plants, plants with ceremonial significance, dye plants, and plants used for basketry, cordage, utensils, weaponry, and other non-food purposes were not included in the study. ''Berries' ' Chamberlin 1907' Chamberlin -1915Grinnell 1923b;Jacobs and Jacobs 1982;Johnston 1970;Spinden 1907Spinden -1915Turner 1997 Creeping wintergreen. Gaultheria humifusa…”

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“…Drupes Chamberlin 1907Chamberlin -1915Ewers 1958;Fowler 1989;Grinnell 1923aGrinnell , 1923bHilger 1952;Johnston 1970;Lowie 1935;Riddell 1978;Spinden 1907Spinden -1915Toll 1914 Wild plum. Berries Chamberlin 1907Chamberlin -1915Grinnell 1923b;Hilger 1952;Smith 1974;Toll 1914 Raspberry. Rubus idaeus…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Aggregate fruits Chamberlin 1907Chamberlin -1915Grinnell 1923b;Johnston 1970;Kuhnlein and Turner 1991;Leighton 1985 September), which are more relevant than calendar years to plant growth. September is treated as a growing season month because of its importance to the ripening of high-altitude fruits, though it does not meet Binford's (2001) temperature-based definition, and in some years experiences hard frosts and early snows.…”

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Effects of Climate on Plant-Food Availability at High Altitude in the Colorado Front Range, U.S.A

Benedict

2007

Journal of Ethnobiology

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Forty plant species and groups of related species were identified as potential food sources in the alpine tundra and subalpine forest of the Colorado Front Range. Emergence, flowering, and ripening schedules were monitored from 1994 to 2004, a period that included years with marked differences in precipitation, growing-season temperature, and snowbankmeltout dates. Late-lying snow is a critical limiting factor in the high-mountain environment, delaying the emergence of edible greens and the blooming of root-food species by as much as 2½ to 3 months in extreme years. Fruit and seed production are unreliable at high altitude because favorable moisture and temperature conditions rarely exist at all stages in the developmental process. Ethnographic data from arctic and subpolar regions with ET (effective temperature) values similar to those of the study area suggest that plant foods comprised less than 20% of the high-altitude summer diets of Front Range hunter-gatherers. Percentages would have been lower during cold, snowy intervals such as the Little Ice Age. Visitors to the alpine region, however, spent much of the year in warmer environments. On an annual basis they were not plant-food deprived.

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confidence: 99%