[Wikipedia] Culinary and Medicinal Uses: Like the Canada buffaloberry, Sheperdia argentea has been used historically as a food, medicine, and dye.[14] Its various uses including the treatment of stomach troubles and in coming-of-age ceremonies for girls.[15] In the Great Basin, the berries were eaten raw and dried for winter use, but more often cooked into a flavoring sauce for bison meat.[16] The buffaloberry has been a staple food to some Native Americans, who ate the berries in puddings, jellies, and in raw or dried form.[17] The Gosiute Shoshone name for the plant is añ-ka-mo-do-nûp. (link added by Mary Ann Machi)