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Teacher Guide for The Cedar Mother
Use this teacher guide to explore the hidden mysteries of the cedar tree life cycle with students in grades 4–6.
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Congratulations on being a successful recipient of the Métis cooking grant, which will allow you to purchase ingredients for these delicious Métis recipes! This opportunity not only supports your culinary exploration but also helps you connect with and celebrate the rich traditions of Métis cooking. We encourage everyone, whether they received the grant or not, to try their hand at preparing these dishes. Click through the accordions below to read the recipes and view instructional videos! Once you've prepared these delicious Métis dishes, share them with us! Upload photos of your culinary creations and share how your cooking journey went. Your pictures and quotes might be featured on our social media platforms or in future reporting and grant initiatives!
More About This Resource Métis Cooking Recipes & VideosMNBC 2023 Home Garden Program Gardening Manual
To complement the Home Garden Program, MNBC put together this gardening manual. It has been edited from its original version to include some additional information and provide you with an online friendly table of contents.
More About This Resource MNBC 2023 Home Garden Program Gardening ManualMNBC Nature Priority Paper 2026
The Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) Nature Priority Paper is a guiding policy document created by the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Food Security. It outlines a framework for environmental stewardship, conservation, and protecting biodiversity across British Columbia using traditional Métis knowledge and values
More About This Resource MNBC Nature Priority Paper 2026MNBC Climate Change Priority Paper 2025
The Métis Nation British Columbia (MNBC) Climate Change Priority Paper outlines the Ministry of Environment, Climate Change & Food Security's framework. It focuses on five core pillars: nature stewardship, renewable energy and low-carbon initiatives, emergency management, health and food security, and sustainable jobs and community prosperity
More About This Resource MNBC Climate Change Priority Paper 2025Unsettling Settler Food Movements: Food Sovereignty and Decolonization in Canada
This article examines the connections between agriculture, alternative food movements, and settler colonialism. In particular I examine how settler agriculture and control of food throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been used as a tool of colonization, and how food sovereignty offers a corrective to the imposition of Western, colonial, gendered, and racialized foodways
More About This Resource Unsettling Settler Food Movements: Food Sovereignty and Decolonization in CanadaÁLI SDÁLṈEW̱ "All the Good Medicine"
On behalf of the event’s planning committee, I would like to share a few highlights of ÁLI SDÁLṈEW̱ The event welcomed around 250 people each day to Tsawout First Nation over June 1 and 2. ‘Over the two days we ate, laughed and learned together.’
More About This Resource ÁLI SDÁLṈEW̱ "All the Good Medicine"Webinar: Decolonizing the Land and Food System: Indigenous Resilience in Times of Crisis
The Building Resilient Food Systems During COVID-19 and Beyond series is brought to you by the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS), the BC Food Web, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems (LFS), and the Royal Bank of Canada. This webinar series focuses on answering fundamental questions about the resiliency of our food system during and beyond COVID-19.
More About This Resource Webinar: Decolonizing the Land and Food System: Indigenous Resilience in Times of CrisisThe Native Seed Pod
The Native Seed Pod is a podcast that celebrates the diversity and beauty of Native seeds, soils, and Indigenous foods. From planting songs to cultural foodscapes, we highlight the importance of protecting and restoring agrobiodiversity and food sovereignty to sustain resilient communities.
More About This Resource The Native Seed PodDiscussion Paper on Indigenous Food Sovereignty
This discussion paper summarizes a review of Indigenous Food Sovereignty (IFS) perspectives in British Columbia (BC), with a focus on mapping current initiatives, outlining IFS narratives, and providing case studies. It also highlights several successful IFS initiatives in British Columbia and recommends strategies for various stakeholders to collaborate to scale up IFS across the province.
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The Gathering of Indigenous-Led Organizations in Agriculture and Food was a collaboration between the Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty (Project Coordination & Management/Lead Author), and the Kamloops Food Policy Council (Administrative host).
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