Eleven Pacific Northwest Legends. Fifty-three secret herbal medicines. The Pacific Coast legends shared here were unknown to any English-speaking person until a century ago, when they were first revealed to and recorded by Tekahionwake, a Mohawk who had moved to the Pacific Northwest. The herbal remedies in this book are also of Mohawk origin and are closely guarded secrets known only to a select few. Revealed here for the first time, they were procured -- a hundred individual records full of symbols -- only after several serious, ritualized meetings at a designated 'camp' where the Snake...