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Morgan:
All that I am familiar with is Cherokee and the only material I know of them using is rivercane here in Oklahoma, the eastern band may have used others. I want to use local rivercane as well, my last cane collecting trip didn’t produce as the cane was too young and I didn’t know it. Need to try again.

Pat B:
The Eastern band probably used Hill cane because it is indigenous to the Southern Appalachian in NC, GA and Tenn where they lived. They probably used all three of the native canes, hill cane, switch cane and ricer cane. They did a lot with the local cane from arrows, atlatls darts, blowguns, floor mats and wall panels, even double woven baskets that would hold water and they could cook in using hot rocks as the heat source.

JonW:
Look for Yaupon Holly. Quite a bit of it wild growing and makes a good material.

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