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Our home, our food, our resilience: A citizen science approach using photovoice to ecological food heritage planning with the Kitselas First Nation in Terrace, BC

This study applied a citizen science-led photovoice food assessment involving six participants who currently live upon the lands of the Kitselas First Nation.

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Indian Food: a Cookbook of Native Foods from British Columbia

This collection contains the full content of Indian Food: A Cookbook of Native Foods from British Columbia, a collection of recipes provided by individuals from several First Nations communities across coastal and interior British Columbia, published by Health and Welfare Canada in 1971.

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Moolks (Pacific crabapple, Malus fusca) on the North Coast of British Columbia: Knowledge and Meaning in Gitga’at Culture

This thesis explores the ethnobotanical knowledge and morphological variation of Malus fusca among the Gitga’at First Nation, revealing the recognition of distinct varieties and highlighting the value of integrating traditional and scientific knowledge for cultural and ecological resilience.

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Wet'suwet'en Ethnobotany: Traditional Plant Uses

Plants are used by Wet'suwet'en people for herbal medicines, foods, and material culture. The names and uses of 59 species of vascular plants and three nonvascular taxa are documented in this study.

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The Ethnobotany and Descriptive Ecology of Bitterroot, Lewisia rediviva Pursh (Portulacaceae), in the Lower Thompson River Valley, British Columbia: A Salient Root Food of the Nlaka'pamux First Nation

This paper explores the ethnobotanical significance, ecological characteristics, and anthropogenic influences on Lewisia rediviva (bitterroot) among the Nlaka'pamux First Nation in British Columbia, highlighting its role as a food and medicinal resource, traditional management practices, and adaptation to human-induced disturbance.

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Traditional Food Systems Research with Canadian Indigenous Peoples

This article offers an overview of a successful research and education intervention program with one British Columbia community demonstrated that increasing traditional food use can improve health status for vitamin A, iron and folic acid. It is concluded that traditional food systems are rich with potential for research and public

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Dietary Change and Traditional Food Systems of Indigenous Peoples

This review describes the many influences on choice of food by indigenous peoples, the qualities of traditional food systems, the forces of non-directed dietary change causing decline in use of traditional food systems, and the consequences of change for indigenous peoples.

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The Nature of Food: Indigenous Dene Foodways and Ontologies in the Era of Climate Change

Climate change leading to a drastic decline in caribou populations has prompted strict hunting regulations in Canada’s Northwest Territories since 2010. The Dene, a subarctic indigenous people, have responded by turning to tradition and calling for more respectful hunting to demonstrate respectful reciprocity to the caribou, including a community-driven foodways project on caribou conservation and Dene caribou conservation.

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Promoting or Protecting Traditional Knowledges? Tensions in the Resurgence of Indigenous Food Practices on Vancouver Island

This article contributes to this discussion by raising practical and ethical questions surrounding the resurgence of traditional food practices in Western Canada.

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Plants, Places, and the Storied Landscape: Looking at First Nations Perspectives on Plants and Land

This paper explores the dynamic relationships between plants, landscapes, and Indigenous peoples in British Columbia, highlighting how plant use, place names, oral histories, and cultural practices reflect historical and contemporary land stewardship.

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Health, Wholeness, and the Land: Gitksan Traditional Plant Use and Healing

This paper explores the Gitksan people's traditional plant uses for food and medicine, their cultural concepts of wellness, and the interplay between Indigenous knowledge and Western science.

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Gitksan Traditional Medicine: Herbs and Healing

This article outlines the importance and significance of traditional healing plants to the Gitksan people.

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