Chippewa Indians

In 1983, Porno Indians in California had to stop eating local fish because of high mercury in the fillets. Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin in 1990 were found to have blood levels of mercury high enough to cause developmental problems in fetuses. The Chippewas had a fondness for the walleye that swam in local lakes. 

Densmore, F. 1928. Uses of plants by the Chippewa Indians. Smithsonian Inst. Bur. Am. Ethnol. Annu. Rep. 44 273-379. 

Traditional Medicine. Chippewa Indians used a strained decoction of the leaves used to wash sore eyes used by Iroquois in a compound poultice to treat rheumatism (moerman) also antirheumatic, galactogogue, gastroenteric diseases, toothache, swellings, antipuritic, demulcent, emollient, and vulnerary activity reported externally applied in poultices for boils, eczema, inflammation, psoriasis, sores, ulcers ointment also used to allay itching, weiss reports negative results as antirheumatic. 

Among some groups of North American Indians (Wasson 1979), the Dogrib Athabascan (Schultes and Flofmann 1979) and the Ojibway of northern Michigan and Ontarip (Keewaydinoquay 1978, 1979, 1998 Wasson 1979), use oi Amanita species as a sacrament dates back over four hundred years. Several tribes (Ojibway, Chippewa, Iroquois,... 

Reagan, A-B. 1928. Plants used by the Bois R rt Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians oFMinne sota WisamsinArchaeolo yid)-. 230—248. 

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