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Wakashn Seasonal Round

This image depicts the seasonal harvesting patterns of Wakashan-speaking people of the west coast.

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Indigenous Tourism BC: Dine Indigenous

This resource offers a long list of Indigenous owned eateries in BC. Indigenous restaurants in BC offer a simple invitation: share gratitude for the land and each other by sharing a meal.

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Kwakiutl Community Garden and Traditional Food System & Stellat'en Journey towards food Sovereignty

This video features two speakers, Manda Hunt-Pyle, who discusses the Kwakiutl community garden through the years, as well as what it looks like to grow in an unheated greenhouse on the coast. The second speaker, Janet Romain, speaks to Stellat'en's Journey towards food sovereignty.

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Kwakwaka’wakw "Clam Gardens": Motive and Agency in Traditional Northwest Coast Mariculture

This article presents the only account of in-depth cultural practices arround clam gardens based on the first-hand knowledge of traditional practitioner, Kwakwaka’wakw Clan Chief Kwaxistalla Adam Dick.

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If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden: A Teacher's Guide

This study guide offers questions, activities and curriculum connections to accompany the storybook "If You Want to Visit a Sea Garden".

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Clam Gardens, Ancient Indigenous technology and sustainable food source | Science In Action

Indigenous research assistant student, Gavin Woodburn, takes us along as he studies an ancient clam garden used by the LIGWTDAX people in the traditional territory of the Kwiakah First Nation, on the west coast of British Columbia.

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If You Want to Visit A Sea Garden by Kay Weisman

This lyrical story follows a young child and an older family member who set out to visit a sea garden early one morning, as the lowest tides often occur at dawn.

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Vancouver Island Traditional Foods Conference 2015

Video of the 8th annual Vancouver Island Traditional Foods Conference, hosted by the Kwakiutl First Nation located at T̓sax̱is – Fort Rupert and, Dła̱ksiwe’ – Cluxewe Campground/Resort

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