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First Peoples Food Wellness

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Learning from the Land Toolkit

This toolkit includes resources and stories from K-12 schools engaging with Indigenous plants and pedagogy.

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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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Nuuchahnulth Youth Warrior Family Society

In this video the Nuu-chah-nulth Youth Warrior Society presents on the incredible work on the lands and waters, supporting food sovereignty within their communities.

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Understanding Common Language Toolkit

This toolkit is designed to support us to feel and understand these words in a new way and a way that is grounded more in community, lived experiences. The goal of this resource is for all of us to gain insight into how these words could inform conversations with Indigenous communities.

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Food is Medicine: Recipe Book

This recipe book is based on foods featured in Seasons 1 and 2 of the Food is Medicine Cooking Show.

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A Journey Toward Indigenous Food Security & Food Sovereignty

The document outlines the Indigenous Sport Physical Activity & Recreation Council's Food Systems Program, focusing on promoting Indigenous food security and sovereignty through community engagement, education, and support.

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FNHA Common Language Project Report 2023: Traditional Foods, Medicine, Nutrition and Food Security

This project offered a powerful pause to reflect on some commonly used food-related words within First Nations communities. This project scanned dozens of documents and consulted with many elders and Knwoledge holders to reveal four common words: traditional foods, food security, nutrition and medicine.

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B.C. Food Directory: producers & processors search

Explore B.C. food and beverage Indigenous-owned businesses and contact them directly.

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Deeply Rooted: Decolonizing Your Plate

Colonization and assimilation took away customs and traditional foods from both Native and immigrant communities. Now, local farmers and chefs are bringing back traditional cuisines.

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Kaa T'eix's Cook Book

This is a comprehensive cookbook by Mary Howard Pelayo, focusing on traditional Tlingit and Alaskan Native recipes. It is a cultural preservation effort dedicated to mothers, grandmothers, and ancestors who passed down these recipes.

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B.C. Indigenous Pathfinder Service

The B.C. Indigenous Pathfinder Service is a single source for support and referral to help navigate the relevant information, tools and funding available to start or expand activities related to Indigenous food systems, food sovereignty, food security and/or the agriculture and food sector.

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Food Sovereignty: A Growing Movement

This episiode of the podcast "All My Relations", dives into how all of us, even if it is just in tiny ways, can become food sovereignty activists.

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