okanagan colville shuswap

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Betula papyrifera- Western Paper Birch
... to make canoes by the Okanagan-Colville, Thompson, Montana Indian, and Bella Coola. The bark was used to make baskets by the Thompson, Okanagan-Colville, Shuswap, Gitksan, and Bella Coola. Bark was also used for lining storage caches and wrapping food by the Thompson. The inner bark was boiled to produce a brown dye by the Okanagan-Colville ...
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Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa... Black Cottonwood
... . Plant: Wood used to make dugout canoes by the Okanagan-Colville, Shuswap, and Thompson. Rotten wood used for smoking hides by the Thompson and Shuswap. Dried inner bark used as soap- laundry and personal ... cooked with mountain goat fat for sunscreen. Poultice of pitch applied to sores by the Shuswap and Nitinaht.
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