In the book Native American Ethnobotany by Daniel E. Moerman, there is a reference to drinks made from crushed berries of certain members of the Arctostaphylos family. The specific ones mentioned as Navajo sources are A. pringlei (Pringle Manzanita), A. pumila (Sandmat Manzanita) and A. patula (Greenleaf Manzanita).

Other tribes used other varieties of Arctostaphylos that were available in their area, but some of them were mainly used as medication.

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