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Forest Walk English First Peoples 10
Place is local. While there are commonalities, each First Nation has a unique, local understanding of Place.
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Clover? Stalks are chewy Flowers are delicious
Nectar tastes like honey Food, medicine,
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Dandelion You can eat the whole plant. Flower and leaves for salad, used as food colours Blood cleanser Milk in stem for mosquito bites.
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Plaintain I taste like spinach leaves
Find me when you get a bee sting or cut Nature’s bandaid Chew or squish and roll up poultice
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Blackberries good for vitamin C
Not Indigenous to BC? Keeps away scurvy Food, medicine-blood cleanser
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Broadleaf Maple I am also known as ‘paddle tree’
The wood very good for water because the wood has a natural oil that repels water. Am I a hard wood, why does that matter? technology
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Story of Creation Story of western Hemlock-he was greedy, and wanted the biggest family, so he was so excited he fell aspeel and missed the giving of gifts from creator. Wind woke him up, he raced to the head of the line, Creator moved him to the end of the line, but Cedar let him move in front of her, but he hangs his head in shame at the remembrance Medicine-tea, suppress hunger Food-Vitamin C, suppress hunger, lemon Technology-building weather resistant wood
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Lodgepole Pine I’m usually known as an interior tree
Good for log homes Teachnology Weave baskets with the fibers
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I’m not a Maple I have a special use, very helpful for hikers, mountain bikers, and fisherman! Outdoor toilet paper/towel Clean the salmon
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First Berry of the Season Salmon Berry
Indicator plant-return of salmon, spring Food & medicine
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Cedar Tree of Life Leaves look like scales of a fish
Roots were used to weave baskets Bark used to create Gortex of the past.
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