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Native Americans in British museums : living histories / Jack Davy.
Davy, JackDate: 2021- Pictures
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Native Americans shake hands with a Western visitor, who is shown standing beside a sledge drawn by dogs; wigwams are seen in the background. Pencil and brown wash.
Reference: 575262i- Digital Images
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Queen Victoria & Prince Albert meet Native Americans
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The health of Native Americans : toward a biocultural epidemiology / by T. Kue Young.
Young, T. Kue.Date: 1994- Books
Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer / edited by Joseph C. Winter.
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
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Tribe, race, history : Native Americans in southern New England, 1780-1880 / Daniel R. Mandell.
Mandell, Daniel R., 1956-Date: 2010- Pictures
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Above, Native Americans returning from a hunt chewing a tobacco-like substance; below, two armadillos. Etching.
Reference: 42058i- Pictures
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A man and woman representing a warning about sexually transmitted diseases among Alaska Natives and native Americans; advertisement for local health clinics and the National Native American AIDS Hotline by the Alaska Native Health Board. Colour lithograph by Cliff Hiatt, 1990.
Date: 1990Reference: 667952i- Pictures
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Dakota War of 1862 (Sioux Uprising): the mass hanging of Sioux Native Americans at Mankato. Colour lithograph, 1863.
Childs, W. H.Date: 1863Reference: 677114i- Books
Status of Native Americans in the United States / prepared by Betty M. Vetter ; under contract with American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science Linkages in the Community Initiative.
Vetter, Betty M.Date: [1995], ©1995- Pictures
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The marriage of Pocohontas to John Rolfe: the couple are shown being married in the open air by a Western priest, surrounded by Native Americans. Lithograph after Holenstein, 1861.
Holenstein.Date: 1861Reference: 575285i- Digital Images
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Euonymus americanus L. Celastraceae North America. Millspaugh (1974 ) reports that E. atropurpureus or Wahoo used by Native Americans as a laxative, for stomach upsets and secondary syphilis, coughs, colds and asthma
Dr Henry Oakeley- Books
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Making war and minting Christians : masculinity, religion, and colonialism in early New England / R. Todd Romero.
Romero, R. Todd, 1968-Date: [2011], ©2011- Pictures
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A native American woman with plaited hair and a Native American logo as a hair decoration within a banner held up by wooden posts; an advertisement for the Native American Women's Health Education Reource Center in South Dakota. Lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 667918i- Digital Images
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Vaccinium corymbosum L. Ericaceae Bilberry. Deciduous shrub. Distribution: North America. The berries are eaten and rich in Vitamin C. Native Americans used them as a dressing on acute erysipelas (Milspaugh, 1974). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Vaccinium corymbosum L. Ericaceae Bilberry. Deciduous shrub. Distribution: North America. The berries are eaten and rich in Vitamin C. Native Americans used them as a dressing on acute erysipelas (Milspaugh, 1974). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Xanthorhiza simplicissima Marshall Ranunculaceae. Yellow root. Distribution: North America, where it was discovered by the plant collector and explorer William Bartram in 1773. Yellow-root. Austin (2004) reports that of the Native Americans, the Cherokee use the crushed plant to make a yellow dye
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Ribes odoratum H.L.Wendl Grossulariaceae Buffalo currant. Distribution: North America. Fruits edible. Presumably a source of vitamin C but no medicinal use. No reports of medicinal usage by Native Americans found. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Pictures
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Cremation of a native American lying on a plank of wood above a fire; warning issued by the Californian Rural Indian Health Board to native Americans to practice safe sex. Colour lithograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 667676i- Digital Images
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Aralia spinosa L. Araliaceae. Devil's walking stick, Prickly ash, Hercules' club. Tree. Distribution: Eastern North America. Contact with sap causes skin irritation, raw berries mildly toxic to humans, causing diarrhoea and vomiting. Eaten by bears. Used medicinally by Native Americans for a variety of conditions. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Digital Images
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Oenothera macrocarpa Nutt. Onagraceae. Ozark Sundrops, Bigfruit Evening Primrose. Formerly O. missouriensis. Distribution: South central USA. O. macrocarpa does not appear to have been used medicinally, but other species are so used. Austin (2004) records that O. biennis (Evening Primrose) was used by Native Americans as a potherb in West Virginia. Leaves as salad, roots boiled like potato also infusion to treat obesity and relieve piles (Cherokee)
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Trillium sessile L. Trilliaceae Distribution: North America. Various Trilliums were used by Native Americans to stop haematuria, haematemesis, menorrhagia, and to heal ulcers (Milspaugh, 1974). Roots were eaten to treat stiff muscles, and tea from the plant drunk and powdered plant put on joints for rheumatism by the Iroquois (Lewis & Elvin-Lewis, 2003). Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Dr Henry Oakeley- Archives and manuscripts
Accounts of surrenders of land by native Americans in Canada, as laid before Yearly Meeting
Date: c.1838Reference: PP/HO/D/D170Part of: Hodgkin family- Archives and manuscripts
Accounts of surrenders of land by native Americans in Canada, as laid before Yearly Meeting
Date: c.1838Reference: PP/HO/D/D171Part of: Hodgkin family