Did you know? Did you know? Ki’piaapi or “soon old man” makes a The three flowered avens has three brief appearance in the Spring and Blackfoot names for each phase of represents the warmth and beauty growth. First stage is the “lies on his of the yellow sun at its heart, the belly” with the flowers drooping grace of the purple mountains all down. The second phase is where around and a heavy fur robe to keep the flowers point upward as “old warm. mans whiskers” and finally in the third and final stage, the flower bursts outward into “prairie smoke”.

Ki’piaapi Asstssípokoy Aisattsikohtako Ma’s Maanikapi Ka’kitsimo Matóyihkoyipisátssaisski Sooyaiaiihtsi Prairie Crocus Smooth Blue Beardtongue Lupine Prairie turnip Wild Bergamot Wild Mint Dotted Blazingstar Prairie Smoke Anemone patens Penstemon sp Lupinus sp Psoralea esculenta Monardo fistulosa Mentha arvensis Liatris punctata Geum triflorum April-May May-June June-July June July July-August August May-June

Did you know? Ma’s is an important food and medicine to the Niitsitapi. The root of the Prairie Turnip is rich in fibers, protein, and carbohydrates and is beneficial for the body as it maintains brain health, prevents cancer, diabetes and a good source of energy. It also is connected to the morning star and the sky beings. Kinii Oststaksimaan Aiksikksiksi Ootoki’pisti Saokiipisatsiinikimm Saokiipisatsiinikimm Ana’wawatokstima Ana’wawatokstima Kakahsiin Amaohkaapistsisskitsi Prairie Rose Pincushion Cactus Water Smartweed Skeletonweed Nodding Onion Nodding Onion Louisiana Broom Rape Louisiana Broom Rape Bearberry/Kinnikinik Scarlet Mallow Rosa acicularis Corypantha vivapara Persicaria amphibia Lygodesmia juncea Allium cernuum Allium cernuum Orobanche ludoviciana Close up Arctosaphylos uva-ursi Malva coccinea June-August June-July August July June-July June-July August May June-July

Did you know? At the time of flowering of Otsiikin or buffalo beans, buffalo bulls tented to leave their winter range for summer Naatosipisa tssaisski Otsiikin Isttstsissíí’pisatssaissk Iihtáómaitsimihkio’p Otahkáápistsisskitsiists Otahkoottsis grazing on the Opihtahtsi Aomaohsksimii Aokspiiyipisatssaisski Akspíí Áaattsistaotsipíiis Common Dandelion Buffalo Bean Arnica Prickly Pear Cactus prairie which Goat’s beard Yellow Buckwheat Nineleaf biscuitroot Common Tickseed Prairie Coneflower Gumweed Rabbitbrush Taraxacum officinale Thermopsis rhombifolia Arnica sp. Opuntia polyacantha accounts for Tragopogon dubius Eriogonum flavum Lomatium triternatum Coreopsis tinctoria Ratibia columnifera Grindelia squarrosa Ericameria nauseosa April-May May-June June June-July their name. May-June June July August August August August

Did you know? Did you know? That all parts The of the Death Áwaanataapist- Camas plant is sisskitsi or the poisonous to Gumbo Evening humans as Primrose flower well as starts the day livestock. white and fades to pink by the end of the same day. E-cramps Pisatsiinikimm Asstssípokoy Ootsistiin Ootsistiin Áwaanataapistsisskitsi Áwaanataapistsisskitsi Kiaayaapistsisskitsi Aohtoksooki Pokínssomo Death Camas Wild Onion White Beardtongue Wild Strawberry Wild Strawberry Gumbo Evening Primrose Gumbo Evening Primrose Bear Grass Yarrow Cow Parsnip Zigadenus sp Allium sp. Penstemon albidus Fragaria sp. Fruit Oenothera cespitosa Oenothera cespitosa Xerophyllum tenax Achillea millefolium Heracleum maximum May-June April-May May-June June June June June June-July June-July July NAAPI’S GARDEN Did you know? The seeds ……And then after he made the earth, Naapi Naapi’s from the wolf willow were went about gouging the earth to make rivers and used as beads for lakes, filling them with water. He covered his necklaces or were sewn as territory with grass for Iinnii (the buffalo). Naapi a decoration not only made roots, berries, and plants for the Garden Aahsowa Atsiinaimo Misisaimi’soyiis on dresses. Siiksinoko A’kiitoyi Wild Licorice Western Meadow rue Wolf Willow Creeping Juniper Trembling Aspen animals to eat and use but he made all kinds of Glycyrrhiza lepidota Thalictrum occidentale Elaeagnus commutata Juniperus horizontalis Populus tremuloides flowers to beautify his territory. Lest his people June-July June-July June-July June April-May might get sick, he also scattered throughout his territory all kinds of medicinal plants for them to keep them in good health.

This pamphlet is a humble beginning of an attempt to retrieve some of the plants that are natural and indigenous to the prairie landscape. The BUFFLAO TREATY of 2014 mentions Pakksini’simaan Pakksini’simaan Otohtoksiin Otohtoksiin Iimatotsiinaimo Patokh’i conservation, culture, and education in its Northern Gooseberry Fruit Wild Red Raspberry Fruit Labrador tea Spruce clauses. This pamphlet is created in fulfillment of Ribes oxyacanthoides July Rubus strgosus July Ledum glandulosum Picea sp. July July May-June All year those purposes of the BUFFALO TREATY and to remind us of Did you know? NAAPI’S GARDEN. How to pick mi’ksinittsiim was brought upon by Napi, after losing his berries in the water. He stated; “This shall be the way people will pick you from the bushes, they will We would like to acknowledge and thank hit the bushes and this will knock off the berries where they will be picked Amethyst First Rider, Leroy Little Bear, up by the people.” The Niitsitapi still pick berries this way, they will lay Kansie Fox, William Singer III, and Norma Jean Mi’ksiníttsiim canvas under the bushes and beat Siikokiinis Siikokiinis Kaksamis Russell for their insights and knowledge the berry bush. This is done after the Buffaloberry first frost, as it makes the berries. Paper Birch Paper Birch leaf Pasture sage which helped make the Shepherdia argebtea sweeter. Betula papyrifera Artemesia frigida August-September April-May “Naapi’s Garden” project a success.

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