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Most of the best gathering grounds on the western side of the reservation - including huckleberries, soapberries, strawberries, chokecherries and medicinal plants - were destroyed.

From Washington Times • Nov. 29, 2015

Then as now, the Northwest Coast, thick with fruit and fruits de mer, was a gatherer’s paradise: wild strawberries, wild blueberries, soapberries, huckleberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries; clams, cockles, mussels, oysters; flounder, hake, salmon.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann