This research considers some of the uses and harvest protocols of one of the most important medicinal plants for Indigenous peoples throughout British Columbia, Vertarum viride (skookum root, green false hellebore, Indian poke, Indian hellebore). The medicinal qualities of V. viride are well respected given its equally powerful ability to paralyze and kill. Using botanical, ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and linguistic data, a broad overview of hellebore is provided for the northwest coast of North America, followed by an in-depth consideration of Gitxsan harvest protocol, witnessed through participant observation.

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Skookum根：西北不列颠哥伦比亚省的黑黎芦（Veratrum viride）民族植物

这项研究考虑了不列颠哥伦比亚省土著人民最重要的药用植物之一Vertarum viride（skookum根，绿色假黑黎芦，印度oke，印度黑黎芦）的一些使用和收获方案。鉴于V. viride的麻痹和杀伤能力同样强大，因此其药用质量得到了很好的尊重。利用植物学，人种学，民族历史学和语言学数据，对北美西北海岸的黑黎芦进行了广泛的概述，随后通过参与者的观察见证了吉特桑收获协议的深入考虑。