Suggested Readings
Healing plants : medicine of the Florida Seminole Indians by Call Number: E99 .S28 S66ISBN: 081302062XPublication Date: 2001
A dictionary of Creek/Muskogee : with notes on the Florida and Oklahoma Seminole dialects of Creek by Call Number: PM991 .Z5 M37ISBN: 0803232071Publication Date: 2000
- Diseases & Remedies: Creek Religion and MedicineBegins on page 665 within the United States, Congress, House. "Forty-second annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1924-1925." 69th Congress, 1st Session, H.Doc. 246, 1926. Readex: U.S. Congressional Serial Set. This chapter is written by John R. Swanton
Placenames of Georgia by Call Number: Emory owns 2 copiesISBN: 9780820303420Publication Date: 1975Explanations of the origins of names for towns, roads, streams, and mountains provide information and anecdotes about Georgia's local history including the Creek.
Native American Ethnobotany by Call Number: check Library Search for locationISBN: 9780881924534Publication Date: 1998An extraordinary compilation of the plants used by North American native peoples for medicine, food, fiber, dye, and a host of other things. Choice reviews writes "Moerman offers a fantastic compilation of information about 4,029 species of plants used by 291 groups of North American Indians." More than 44,000 uses for these plants including dye, food, medicine, etc. The most massive ethnobotanical survey ever undertaken. Also see Moerman's ethnobotanical dictionary published in 2010.
Other Books from the Emory Libraries
- Native American Cooking & FoodwaysOften includes recipes for herbal medicines, especially teas.
- Plants of GeorgiaFor tips to expand to nearby states with similar flora, contact a librarian
What's in a Name?
- Peaches: Savory Story PodcastLearn about the influence of the Muscogee with peaches in Georgia and the naming of Peachtree Street.
- pvkanv (peach)learn the language
- Plants used as curatives by certain southeastern tribes, by Lyda Averill TaylorThis is a text compiled in 1940 of historic texts. You can search by plant using common or latin name