sentences:  Folklore also states that American colonists used this plant to treat typhus outbreaks.The author Hemmerly writes that the Indians used Joe Pye Weed in the treatment of kidney stones and other urinary tract ailments.A peer-reviewed study suggests that Joe Pye of plant fame was a Mohican sachem named Schauquethqueat who lived in the mission town of Stockbridge, Massachusetts from 1740 to c. 1785 and who took as his Christian name, Joseph Pye.