Talk:Typha

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[edit] Japanese people

Why would you tease and/or rub a cat with a cattail...??

[edit] Perennial or Annual?

Will my beautiful cattails return next year? 216.199.161.66 22:46, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

They should because I live near cattails and they generally become brown in the winter and spread their seeds, but you should probably help them by breaking the cattail and spread the seeds on the inside.69.1.20.100 00:53, 12 December 2006 (UTC)Jopo

[edit] Indians are mentioned excessively

Is it necessary to include comments about Indians on this page and on other pages devoted to plants? There used to be a heap of different tribes. Some Indians never saw a cattail because those Indians lived in deserts. All Indians used plants in various ways just as did all people in every location on earth. It is unnecessary to guess about what Indians did with the plants that they used. The practice of including a blurb about what "Native Americans" (supposedly) did should be dropped. Velocicaptor 00:25, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

It's no different than talking about what "Europeans" used a particular plant for. In this particular case, it should be possible to verify the stated uses, if artifacts or documentation of such artifacts can be presented from the published literature. It should also be possible to (from such an artifact) tie the use to a particular tribe and/or region. Just because the information is not as precise as it could be doesn't mean it should be removed; it should be improved. --EncycloPetey (talk) 22:29, 14 February 2008 (UTC)