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1. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › en › articleTraditional Plants and Indigenous Peoples in Canada

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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.

2. www.researchgate.net › profile › Nancy-Turner-7Where our women used to get the food’’: cumulative effects ...

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   Canada. 1This paper was ... dian First Peoples and their diets. Plant foods — greens, in-ner bark, fruits, root vegetables, and beverages — were ... Why did indigenous people stop eating

3. journals.sagepub.com › doi › 10“That Was Our Candy!”: Sweet Foods in Indigenous Peoples ...

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   May 4, 2023 · Unlike the Indigenous Peoples of eastern North America, for whom maple tree sap was a centrally important food (Munson 1989), people of northwestern North America did not originally rely on maple sap as a food. The Lower Nlaka'pamux harvested the sap of bigleaf maple, but Annie York noted, “they don't boil it in the olden days, they just use it as a tonic.”

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4. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › en › articleIndigenous Peoples' Medicine in Canada | The Canadian ...

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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 ...

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5. wwf.ca › stories › indigenous-food-forests'Today we have gardens but before we designed... entire ...

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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.

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6. www.researchgate.net › publication › 314079419Traditional Plant Foods of Canadian Indigenous Peoples ...

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   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.

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   How many plants did indigenous people eat 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.

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   What foods do indigenous people eat in Canada?

   • Over 500 species of wild plants provided food for Indigenous peoples in Canada. Some of these foods are similar to those eaten today: root and green vegetables, fruits, nuts, berries, seeds and mushrooms. Traditional foods like maple syrup, wild rice and wild fruit are now enjoyed in Canada by Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike.

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   Where did indigenous peoples grow food in Canada?

   • (See also Indigenous Peoples’ Medicine in Canada.) Before the arrival of Europeans to what is now Canada, Indigenous peoples practised the cultivation of food crops in a variety of fertile areas. In terms of scale, this cultivation was at its most elaborate in Southern Ontario and the St. Lawrence Lowland.

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   • “That Was Our Candy!”: Sweet Foods in Indigenous Peoples' Traditional Diets in Northwestern North America At least 50 different plant foods in Indigenous Peoples' traditional diets in northwestern North America—including berries, root vegetables, greens, and tree sap and inner bark—are known for their sweet taste.

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   How have indigenous peoples used plants in modern life?

   • Many traditional uses of plants have evolved to be used in modern life by Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples alike. (See also Indigenous Peoples’ Medicine in Canada.) Before the arrival of Europeans to what is now Canada, Indigenous peoples practised the cultivation of food crops in a variety of fertile areas.

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   • At least 50 different plant foods in Indigenous Peoples' traditional diets in northwestern North America—including berries, root vegetables, greens, and tree sap and inner bark—are known for their sweet taste. Some were, and are, appreciated as confections themselves and others were used to sweeten foods and medicinal preparations.

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   In May 2016, elders from Qualicum First Nation asked Turner for advice on restoring one of these lost gardens. This afternoon, she and two old friends, Kwaxsistalla (Clan Chief Adam Dick) and Kim Recalma-Clutesi, have been halting the spread of a lethal intruder. After flowering, death camas looks almost identical to the edible variety.