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Nunavik Food Guide: Educator’s Handbook
This handbook was created to complete the information provided in the Nunavik Food Guide. It will help you to better understand the Nunavik Food Guide and learn about healthy eating.
More About This Resource Nunavik Food Guide: Educator’s HandbookNunavik Food Guide
The Nunavik Food Guide helps people make wise food choices that promote health. It emphasizes the importance of both country food and healthy, store-bought food.
More About This Resource Nunavik Food GuideTs'msyen Seasonal Rounds Poster Series
The cycle of like of the Northcoast is governed by the turning of the seasons, which brings to the Tsimshian people a series of opportunites to gather food from the land and sea. This poster series illustrates the 13 seasons of the year.
More About This Resource Ts'msyen Seasonal Rounds Poster SeriesSḵwálwen: Indigenous Skincare
Sḵwálwen (skwall-win) is an Indigenous skincare line that honors Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) plant knowledge and ancestral traditions by using sustainably harvested and sourced organic plants to balance, renew, repair, strengthen, hydrate and protect the skin.
More About This Resource Sḵwálwen: Indigenous SkincareOur 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.
More About This Resource Our home, our food, our resilience: A citizen science approach using photovoice to ecological food heritage planning with the Kitselas First Nation in Terrace, BCCBC News: Indigenous people struggle to afford traditional foods
Many Indigenous people began turning back to traditional foods to offset rising prices at grocery stores. But as the cost of living continues to increase and people are stretched thinner, Indigenous communities are being forced to make difficult decisions about sharing and identity.
More About This Resource CBC News: Indigenous people struggle to afford traditional foodsBC Government - Indigenous food systems and agriculture
This provincial page summarizes Indigenous food systems work across BC.
More About This Resource BC Government - Indigenous food systems and agricultureSḵwálwen Botanicals: in conversation with ethnobotanist & founder Leigh Joseph
For RAVEN’s In Conversation series via Instagram, we spoke with Leigh Joseph (ancestral name Styawat), an ethnobotanist and entrepreneur from the Squamish First Nation.
More About This Resource Sḵwálwen Botanicals: in conversation with ethnobotanist & founder Leigh JosephIndigenous Gardens at the University of British Columbia
Four Indigenous initiatives run autonomously at the UBC Farm. You can find out more about these projects here.
More About This Resource Indigenous Gardens at the University of British ColumbiaFirst Nations Health Authority: Eating Healthy
FNHA online resources about nutrition, food safety and traditional diets.
More About This Resource First Nations Health Authority: Eating Healthyxʷc̓ic̓əsəm Garden
The Indigenous Health Research and Education Garden (IHREG) is located at UBC Farm. The garden’s traditional xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Musqueam name is xʷc̓ic̓əsəm. The hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ word means “The place where we grow”.
More About This Resource xʷc̓ic̓əsəm GardenIndigenous Food Sovereignty Case Study
This case study examines issues related to indigenous food sovereignty– including the colonialization and transformation of traditional regional food systems, land rights and access, and pathways to decolonizing research and relationships.
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