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Regional Food Map

Coast Salish

An illustration of a deer in a coastal forest next to a harvested cedar tree, with a bear and a traditional dugout canoe on a misty shoreline in the background.

Coast Salish

This bountiful and beautiful temperate rainforest and coastal mainland area has been the home of the following language families and Nations for millennia:

  • Mainland Comox
  • Halkomelem/Halq’eméylem
  • Hul’q’umi’num’
  • Hunquminum/hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓
  • Nuxalk
  • Se’shalt
  • Squamish
  • Stó꞉lō
  • Lekwungen
  • W̱SÁNEĆ/Saanich

Some of the main foods from this region include:

Water: Salmon, Lingcod, Herring, Halibut, Sturgeon, Clams, Scallops, Mussels, Seal, Whale, Eelgrass

Land: Salal, Salmonberry, Soapberry, Thimbleberry, Wapato, Camas, Deer, Hare, Moose, Beaver, Wapiti, Grouse, Black Bear

Coast Salish

Coast Salish Resources

Sḵwálwen: 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.

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Sḵwálwen 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.

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Scientists, First Nations team up in fresh attempt to revive struggling B.C. herring stocks

Tiny herring have big impacts on the food web as a source of nourishment for many species.

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Citizen science is helping restore herring populations in B.C.'s Howe Sound

Now in its fourth year, this citizen science project is tracking the herring (Slhawt') that return from the open ocean in February and begin spawning.

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What did the Tsleil-Waututh people eat 500 years ago?

A study diving into pre-colonial, Tsleil-Waututh history finds marine foods especially important in traditional diets.

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Unsettling the record: modelling the devastating cumulative effects of selected environmental stressors and loss of human life caused by colonization in Burrard Inlet, Canada

In this paper we present a collaborative, transdisciplinary research project that explores the cumulative ecological and human impacts of colonization on the səl̓ilwət (Tsleil-Wat, Burrard Inlet) ecosystem in what is now known as British Columbia, Canada.

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