Tasty Hackberry Fruits! paleoforaging.com/celtis-laevigata How I gather and eat sugarberry, a type of hackberry that is very common in urban areas. Note: the Indigenous peoples mentioned are still living cultures and when I use past tense it is to describe practices in a historical context. REFERENCES - Carlson, Gustav G. and Volney H. Jones. 1939. Some notes on uses of plants by the Comanche Indians. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 25:517-542. - Castetter, Edward F.