Detoxing pokeweed greens. Note: the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. REFERENCES - Banks, William H. 1953. Ethnobotany of the Cherokee Indians. Master of Science Thesis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. - Gilmore, Melvin Randolph. 1977. Uses of plants by the Indians of the Missouri river region. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln NE. - Kavanagh, Thomas W. (ed.). 2008. Comanche Ethnograph