BG
> > And during my recent visit to Ohio I went to Clifton Gorge
> >Nature Preserve near Dayton. A sign there mentioned that the Miami
Indians
> >used crushed walnuts or buckeyes (I forget which, maybe neither) or their
> >hulls to herd fish.
>
> This reminds me of the Penobscot Indians of Maine, who formed large eeling
> parties and stunned eels by stirrng a mile-long stretch of water with a
poison
> derived from pokeberry and Indian turnip root. Not only was this poison
fatal to
> eels, but it also caused painful skin inflammations among the Indians.
> Apparently, the pain was worth it. Within a half hour or so, the stream
was
> littered with the bodies of dead or dying eels. Indians smoked their eels
and
> used the vertebrae for stock in corn soup.
>
>
> Chris Scharpf
> Baltimore
>
>
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