(database accessed August 2005)
Avena barbata Pott ex Link
Slender Oat; Poaceae
Cahuilla Food (Unspecified)
Small seeds used for food.
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel 1972 Temalpakh (From the
Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, CA.
Malki Museum Press (p. 46)
Avena barbata Pott ex Link
Slender Oat; Poaceae
Miwok Food (Porridge)
Parched, stone-boiled seeds pulverized and eaten as a mush.
Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford 1933 Miwok Material Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11 (p. 152)
Avena barbata Pott ex Link
Slender Oat; Poaceae
Miwok Food (Soup)
Parched, stone-boiled seeds pulverized and eaten as a soup.
Barrett, S. A. and E. W. Gifford 1933 Miwok Material Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 2(4):11 (p. 152)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Cahuilla Food (Porridge)
Parched seeds ground into flour and used to make mush.
Bean, Lowell John and Katherine Siva Saubel 1972 Temalpakh (From the Earth); Cahuilla Indian Knowledge and Usage of Plants. Banning, CA. Malki Museum Press (p. 46)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Diegueno Food (Porridge)
Moistened, hulled kernels boiled and eaten as hot cereal.
Hedges, Ken 1986 Santa Ysabel Ethnobotany. San Diego Museum of Man Ethnic Technology Notes, No. 20 (p. 15)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Kawaiisu Food (Unspecified)
Seeds pounded in a bedrock mortar hole, boiled and eaten.
Zigmond, Maurice L. 1981 Kawaiisu Ethnobotany. Salt Lake City. University of Utah Press (p. 15)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Luiseno Food (Staple)
Seeds ground into a flour and used for food.
Sparkman, Philip S. 1908 The Culture of the Luiseno Indians. University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology 8(4):187-234 (p. 234)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Mendocino Indian Food (Staple)
Seeds parched, ground and the flour eaten dry.
Chestnut, V. K. 1902 Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California. Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408. (p. 311)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Pomo Food (Staple)
Seeds used to make pinoles.
Barrett, S. A. 1952 Material Aspects of Pomo Culture. Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 20 (p. 87)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Pomo Food (Unspecified)
Seeds used for food.
Chestnut, V. K. 1902 Plants Used by the Indians of Mendocino County, California. Contributions from the U.S. National Herbarium 7:295-408. (p. 311)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Pomo Food (Unspecified)
Parched, pounded seeds used for food.
Gifford, E. W. 1967 Ethnographic Notes on the Southwestern Pomo. Anthropological Records 25:10-15 (p. 11)
Avena fatua L.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Pomo Food (Winter Use Food)
Seeds stored for later use.
Gifford, E. W. 1967 Ethnographic Notes on the Southwestern Pomo. Anthropological Records 25:10-15 (p. 11)
Avena sativa L.
Common Oat; Poaceae
Haisla and Hanaksiala Food (Unspecified)
Grains used for food.
Compton, Brian Douglas 1993 Upper North Wakashan and Southern Tsimshian Ethnobotany: The Knowledge and Usage of Plants.... Ph.D. Dissertation, University of British Columbia (p. 205)
Avena sativa L.
Common Oat; Poaceae
Karok Food (Unspecified)
Species used for food.
Schenck, Sara M. and E. W. Gifford 1952 Karok Ethnobotany. Anthropological Records 13(6):377-392 (p. 380)
Avena sativa L.
Common Oat; Poaceae
Navajo Food (Fodder)
Used for hay.
Elmore, Francis H. 1944 Ethnobotany of the Navajo. Sante Fe, NM. School of American Research (p. 25)
Avena sativa L.
Common Oat; Poaceae
Navajo, Ramah Food (Fodder)
Fed to horses without being thrashed and in a bad winter fed to sheep and goats.
Vestal, Paul A. 1952 The Ethnobotany of the Ramah Navaho. Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology 40(4):1-94 (p. 15)
Avena sativa L.
Common Oat; Poaceae
Pomo Food (Unspecified)
Seeds parched in a circular coiled basket and used for food.
Gifford, E. W. 1967 Ethnographic Notes on the Southwestern Pomo. Anthropological Records 25:10-15 (p. 11)
Avena sp.
Oat; Poaceae
Pomo, Kashaya Food (Staple)
Grain used in pinole, a very fine dry meal.
Goodrich, Jennie and Claudia Lawson 1980 Kashaya Pomo Plants. Los Angeles. American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles (p. 85)
Avena sp.
Wild Oat; Poaceae
Yuki Food (Staple)
Used to make pinole.
Curtin, L. S. M. 1957 Some Plants Used by the Yuki Indians ... II. Food Plants. The Masterkey 31:85-94 (p. 85)
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