Indigenous Land Use & Management - Environmental Studies 11
Your topics of research may include the following. Check with your teacher if you have another topic that would be suitable.
Indigenous Landscape Burning
Wapato Gardens
Clam Gardens and Shell Middens
Reef Net Fisheries
Estuary Gardens
Herring spawning branches
Stone or wooden fish traps
Avalanche Lily, Balsamroot, or Camas crops
You will have to search for information in a number of places. Some of them are collected here for you, but not all of the work has been done for you. You may also find some excellent sources. Miss Rimmer would love to include them here.
Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide - Secondary
This guide has units of study within it, many of which are built around the topics that are provided above. You can use the table of contents, or the Ctrl F to search for your terms in the document. When you find your topic within, choose which links you will use. You may also use content in this document to support your research.
Bernice Jensen’s YouTube Channel:
Videos that might be of interest include:
Traditional Plants and their Medicinal Uses
Traditional Smudging and Sage Harvesting
Brenda Celesta’s YouTube Channel:
Videos that might be of interest include:
Harvesting Chaga for Medicine
Harvesting Cottonwood Buds
Elder Mary Jack's YouTube Videos:
Search through her videos to find content that connects with relationships to the land.
Knowledge from Jennifer Morrison:
There is a Facebook group called "Salish Fire Keepers." If you are on Facebook you are encouraged to watch their videos that are available without becoming a member of the group. The admin of that FB group, Jennifer Morrison, teaches cultural burning practices at NVIT, and who shared the following information (and more) in a phone call will Miss Rimmer on May 21, 2020. She suggested looking at the website http://www.firesticks.org.au/ out of Australia, as they are ahead of us in terms of incorporating cultural burning as a land use practice. In Canada we are still navigating how to protect the intellectual rights to Indigenous knowledge. In a conversation with her, she referenced cultural burning in many places around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, and Scotland. She shared that before English rule, Scotland had a culture of burning to improve pheasant habitat. She emphasized the need for a person to know one's own identity and cultural histories when approaching this kind of learning, because if we go back far enough in history, we see worldwide examples of cultural burning. In her work, she refers to a circular calendar, that echoes a lunar calendar. She shared the importance of timing burns so that in meeting one objective, the rest of the ecosystem isn't harmed; and that men and women approach burning with different objectives in mind, with respect to traditional roles and knowledge.
You may also find some content on Facebook groups called "Secwepemc Health Caucus" or "Secwepemc Strong." The latter has a website at: https://secwepemcstrong.com/.
University of Toronto OISE's Deepening Knowledge - Resources for and about Aboriginal Education - Environmental Studies
Collection of resources connected to Aboriginal knowledge and content related to Environmental Studies.
With a bit more digging, you may find some related information on this SD 73 website.
Our Digital Databases also have some content on the topics. Try searching through the following databases:
English Search - EBSCO Grades 4-Adult
Canada in Context
Science in Context
KnowBC.com
Indigenous Landscape Burning
Wapato Gardens
Clam Gardens and Shell Middens
Reef Net Fisheries
Estuary Gardens
Herring spawning branches
Stone or wooden fish traps
Avalanche Lily, Balsamroot, or Camas crops
You will have to search for information in a number of places. Some of them are collected here for you, but not all of the work has been done for you. You may also find some excellent sources. Miss Rimmer would love to include them here.
Science First Peoples Teacher Resource Guide - Secondary
This guide has units of study within it, many of which are built around the topics that are provided above. You can use the table of contents, or the Ctrl F to search for your terms in the document. When you find your topic within, choose which links you will use. You may also use content in this document to support your research.
Bernice Jensen’s YouTube Channel:
Videos that might be of interest include:
Traditional Plants and their Medicinal Uses
Traditional Smudging and Sage Harvesting
Brenda Celesta’s YouTube Channel:
Videos that might be of interest include:
Harvesting Chaga for Medicine
Harvesting Cottonwood Buds
Elder Mary Jack's YouTube Videos:
Search through her videos to find content that connects with relationships to the land.
Knowledge from Jennifer Morrison:
There is a Facebook group called "Salish Fire Keepers." If you are on Facebook you are encouraged to watch their videos that are available without becoming a member of the group. The admin of that FB group, Jennifer Morrison, teaches cultural burning practices at NVIT, and who shared the following information (and more) in a phone call will Miss Rimmer on May 21, 2020. She suggested looking at the website http://www.firesticks.org.au/ out of Australia, as they are ahead of us in terms of incorporating cultural burning as a land use practice. In Canada we are still navigating how to protect the intellectual rights to Indigenous knowledge. In a conversation with her, she referenced cultural burning in many places around the world, including Australia, New Zealand, and Scotland. She shared that before English rule, Scotland had a culture of burning to improve pheasant habitat. She emphasized the need for a person to know one's own identity and cultural histories when approaching this kind of learning, because if we go back far enough in history, we see worldwide examples of cultural burning. In her work, she refers to a circular calendar, that echoes a lunar calendar. She shared the importance of timing burns so that in meeting one objective, the rest of the ecosystem isn't harmed; and that men and women approach burning with different objectives in mind, with respect to traditional roles and knowledge.
You may also find some content on Facebook groups called "Secwepemc Health Caucus" or "Secwepemc Strong." The latter has a website at: https://secwepemcstrong.com/.
University of Toronto OISE's Deepening Knowledge - Resources for and about Aboriginal Education - Environmental Studies
Collection of resources connected to Aboriginal knowledge and content related to Environmental Studies.
With a bit more digging, you may find some related information on this SD 73 website.
Our Digital Databases also have some content on the topics. Try searching through the following databases:
English Search - EBSCO Grades 4-Adult
Canada in Context
Science in Context
KnowBC.com