What is the origin, meaning, and pronunciation of this name?
The Lewis and Clark expedition was near Sauvie Island on March 29, 1806.Captain William Clark wrote.
On the butifull grassy plac, the nativs made a portage of their canoes, and wappato roots to and from a large pond a short distance away.In this pond the women collect pappato by getting into the water, sometimes by holding a small canoe and with their feet loosen the bulb from the bottom of the Fibers.
In 1749, Pehr Kalm traveled through New Sweden, now Delaware and southern New Jersey, where he heard reports of Native Americans harvesting hen's-egg-sized tubers of the broadleaf arrowhead.Kalm found the tubers to be very similar to potatoes.The plant reminded him of a species from his native Sweden, which the German botanist Carl Ludwig Willdenow classified as Sagittarius sagittifolia, although Kalm noted the North American tuber far surpassed the European one in size.Kalm reports on travel in North America.
A man who is ninety-one years old, called Nils Gustafson, told me that he liked to eat these roots when he was a boy.He said that the Indians traveled to the islands, dug out the roots, and brought them home, but they didn't want any other food.The hogs are so greedy that they have made them very scarce.
What was it called?Kalm or his interpreters heard the Native American name for the wild plant.Kalm writes that when the Indians come down to the coast, they give the Europeans the same name.
The Hunger Games is a popular young-adult trilogy by Suzanne Collins.The book, which I haven't read, stays true to the techniques described by many early explorers, although it's my understanding that the hero of the story does not go up to her neck for the small, bluish tubers that do not look like much.In some places, it's considered a weedy invader.
The top drawing was from 1805.The bottom image is courtesy of Tama Matsuoka.