Ethnobotany of the Wabash Valley region.

Good evening folks! I'm creating a Native American ethnobotany garden this year dedicating to the Wabash area since it has so much history and biodiversity. The Wabash river's the longest free flowing river east of the Mississippi and was a historic route for many tribes and early settlers for goods and trade. The region has some historically ancient stands of old growth forest that still stand today. Any of you know which plants were important to Native Americans in the region for food and medicine back then? The Wabash was home to the Miami, Potawatomi, Shawnee, Kickapoo and Lenape who were the grandfathers of all Algonquin peoples. Anybody know of Tecumseh a famous indigenous liberator who led in the war in 1812-1815 against William Harrison and the Americans? If anybody has anything to add, please shoot away. Good night!

Tecumseh also developed a good 4 stroke engine !
From https://fas.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41240-020-00160-z
"Lastly, we focus on the Wabash River ecosystem based on high conservation value and provide a list of actions to maintain and support the ecosystem.
In the Wabash River, there were originally 66 species of freshwater mussels, but now only 30 species with reproducing populations remain.
Although there were multiple stressors over the last century, the largest change in Wabash River fish biodiversity was associated with rapid increases
in municipal nutrient loading and invasive bigheaded carps.
Conclusions
Like similarly neglected large river systems worldwide, the Wabash River has a surprising amount of ecological resilience and recovery.
For instance, of the 151 native fish species found in the 1800s, only three species have experienced local extinctions, making the modern assemblage more intact than many comparable rivers in the Mississippi River basin.
However, not all the changes are positive or support the idea of recovery.
Primary production underpins the productivity of these ecosystems, and the Wabash River phytoplankton assemblages shifted from high-quality green algae in the 1970s to
lower less nutritional blue-green algae as nutrient and invasive species have recently increased.
Our recommendations for the Wabash River and other altered rivers include the restoration of natural hydrology for the mainstem and tributaries, nutrient reductions,
mechanisms to restore historical hydrologic patterns, additional sediment controls, and improved local hydraulics."