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Jan 18, 2012 · Traditional Plants and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Indigenous peoples in what is now Canada collectively used over a 1,000 different plants for food, medicine, materials, and in cultural rituals and mythology. Many of these species, ranging from algae to conifers and flowering plants, remain important to Indigenous communities today.
Jun 17, 2021 · The first farmers were Indigenous people of what is now called the Canadian Prairies. Primarily mobile buffalo hunters, Indigenous people produced and sold food, medicine, construction material ...
May 4, 2023 · Fortunately, with the recognition that the diets of contemporary Indigenous Peoples are generally less healthy than formerly, there are significant and effective initiatives to revitalize and renew the traditional food systems of Indigenous Peoples worldwide, including many in northwestern North America (cf. Devereaux and Kittredge 2008; Kuhnlein et al. 2006, 2013; Reed and McDaniel 2006 ...
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Sep 30, 2022 · That’s what it means to me to have Indigenous land-based knowledge. I don’t love the word garden, but I use it because people can relate to it. Today we have gardens, but before we designed forests. We designed and enhanced entire landscapes that allowed a multitude of organisms thriving.
Jan 1, 1991 · Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples: Nutrition, Botany and Use. January 1991. DOI: 10.4324/9781003054689. Publisher: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. ISBN: 2-88124-465-3.
Jul 19, 2018 · Typically, when used in Canada, and in reference to Indigenous peoples, country food describes traditional Inuit food. This includes marine life, such as shellfish, whales, seals and arctic char; birds and land animals, such as ducks, ptarmigan, bird eggs, bears, muskox and caribou; and plant life, including roots and berries.
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Feb 7, 2006 · Since time immemorial Indigenous peoples in Canada have been using plants and other natural materials as medicine. Plant medicines are used more frequently than those derived from animals. In all, Indigenous peoples have identified over 400 different species of plants (as well as lichens, fungi and algae) with medicinal applications. Medicine ...
