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B Mo’hu is a good plant. We eat the seed pods, which usually have tasty grubs in them. My woman braids or twists the leaf fibers and makes the nets, cords, and other things a man needs. Mo’vi, the bottom of the plant, helps make me clean when I wash with it and cleans me inside when I eat it.
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C Ersvi in hot water makes a drink I take when my belly hurts or to cure sickness. Many of us, mostly the children, die from bellyaches and fevers, but our medicine always makes me well—or it has so far, anyway.
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D Na’shu is a really good tree, for you can use it for many things. The timber is good building material, and the big seeds are good to eat when the cones ripen and open. Some years there are many of them, and then the women need not work so long for a supply.
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E Ho’taki is another very good tree, like Na’shu. We pull the long, shaggy, coarse ho’lpe from the trunk and branches to line our roofs. Shredded very fine, it’s useful for lining our baby’s clothes and my woman needs it sometimes. I use the wood for roof beams, too.
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F Owa’si, the rock flowers, are the food of my war gods. We do not eat them.
Potholes
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G I drink water from little pools like these, sometimes when I have no other water. The water often tastes funny and has bugs in it. The deer, bighorn sheep, and other animals drink from these pools, too, when there is any water.