Secrets of the Medicine Man

Eleven Pacific Northwest Legends. Fifty-three secret herbal medicines.The Pacific Coast legends shared here were unknown to any English-speaking person until a century ago, when they were first revealed to and recorded by Tekahionwake, a Mohawk who had moved to the Pacific Northwest.The herbal remedies in this book are also of Mohawk origin and are closely guarded secrets known only to a select few. Revealed here for the first time, they were procured -- a hundred individual records full of symbols -- only after several serious, ritualized meetings at a designated 'camp' where the Snake River flows into the mighty Columbia."Our Almighty Benefactor, in bestowing upon us the Vegetable Tribes...has not only given them for our food and clothing, but with kind, parental care, has, in them, provided powers to counteract and remove the diseases to which mankind are subject." --Mrs. Lincoln's Botany, 1831