Canadian dogbane yielding a tough fiber used as cordage by Native Americans; used in folk medicine for pain or inflammation in joints
valuable fiber plant of East Indies now widespread in cultivation
a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived
of or pertaining to American Indians or their culture or languages
any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
a plant fiber
a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging
any plant of the genus Cannabis; a coarse bushy annual with palmate leaves and clusters of small green flowers; yields tough fibers and narcotic drugs
