Medicine
From the environment, Mi'kmaq obtained a variety of herbal medicines.
Cherry tree bark was boiled into a tea to ease colds and flu.
The sap from the white spruce tree was applied to treat mouth sores.
Eel skins were used as bandages.
Broken limbs were covered in sap-soaked moss and then wrapped in birchbark and splinted.
Wounds were covered in fir balsam to stop the bleeding and heal the cut.
Cherry tree bark was boiled into a tea to ease colds and flu.
The sap from the white spruce tree was applied to treat mouth sores.
Eel skins were used as bandages.
Broken limbs were covered in sap-soaked moss and then wrapped in birchbark and splinted.
Wounds were covered in fir balsam to stop the bleeding and heal the cut.