This comprehensive guide includes more than one hundred plants recognized by the Dena'ina people of Southcentral Alaska. Common English names together with scientific names, and the Native name and its translation, combine with full-color photos and detailed descriptions of each plant. The Dena'ina people are Athabascan Indians with extensive knowledge about local plants. Historically, they used plants for food, medicinal purposes, and everyday uses such as dyes, chewing gum, glue, and waterproofing material. Plants were also used to construct buildings, boats, sleds, snowshoes, spears, cooking utensils, and other items. The Dena'ina still use plants for many of these purposes today. Priscilla Russell Kari is an ethnobotanist who collaborated with the Dena'ina people to put together this book. For more than a decade, she gathered and compiled the traditional knowledge that they shared with her about plants. It is her hope that this book will dispel notions fostered during early contact in the 1800s that Native people have no medicine ¦nor any knowledge of medicinal herbs and make people more aware of the rich cultural heritage of the Dena'ina people.