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The Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industries and Indigenous Medicine: Conquest or Complementarity?
Contemporary & Desired Use of Traditional Resources in a Coast Salish Community: Implications for Food Security and Aboriginal Rights in British Columbia
Diachronic and Cultural Variations in Chukchi Ethnobotany
Highlights the results of interviews with Chukchi people about the local plants they collect and their various uses.
Did Native Americans Influence the Northward Migration of Plants During the Holocene?
A Home in the Upper Athabasca Valley: The Aboriginal Homesteaders in the Nineteenth Century
The Hot and the Cold: Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico
Indigenous Kinship with the Natural World in New South Wales
Indigenous Knowledge & Pollinator Gardens: Workshop Series
Series of eight modules designed to teach Grade 6 students about the importance of biodiversity, local community and Indigenous knowledge by creating gardens. Each module should take place over the course of a week.
Indigenous Plant Guide
Brief list arranged under headings leaves and plants, berries, and barks, with location, description and uses.
International Law, Plant Biodiversity and the Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: An Examination of Intellectual Property Rights in Relation to Traditional Medicine
International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights and Traditional Knowledge: The Case of Plant Genetic Resources
Learning from the Land: Resources and Stories from K-12 Schools to Support Engagement with Indigenous Plants and Pedagogy
Includes description of the Harvest4Knowledge, Indigenous Foodscapes, Local Foods to School programs in British Columbia and five lesson plans.
Native Foodways: Indigenous North American Religious Traditions and Foods
Setting the Table: Traditional First Nations Foods Lesson Plans K-8: Foundational Knowledge
Lesson Plans: Food Is a Gift suitable for K-2; Gifts of the Season suitable for Grades 3-5; Gifts of the People suitable for Grades 6-8.
Traditional Foods and Indigenous Recipes in B.C.'s Public Institutions
Traditional Harvesting Number 1: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 1-4 involves learning about growing and harvesting plants and their names in Michif.
Additional resources: Plant Harvesting Image Cards; Michif Terms Teacher Card.
Traditional Harvesting Number 2: Wild Rose
Lesson plan for Grades 4-7 goals include recognizing the importance of harvesting, and identifying and describing the uses of several plants using Michif and English terms.
Traditional Knowledge and Intellectual Property: A Handbook on Issues and Options for Traditional Knowledge Holders in Protecting their Intellectual Property and Maintaining Biological Diversity
Traditional Métis Medicines and Remedies
Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Tsimshian: Unit Plan for Secondary Sciences, Social Studies, and Applied Skills
Recommended for: Science Grades 9-12; Resource Science (forests) Grades 11 and 12; Science and Technology Grade 11; Social Studies Grades 11-12; and Home Economics Grades 11-12.
Traditional Plants
Photographs of 20 plants accompanied by a brief description of their medicinal uses.
Two Ways of Knowing: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge
Includes explanation of the main features of the two knowledge systems and three brief case studies: Indigenous plant classification and nomenclature; pine mushroom industry in Northwestern BC; smallpox epidemic of 1862; and AIDS and its impact on Indigenous populations.
Recommended for Grade 8 Biology.
Wáhta Teachings
Educational resource about the sugar maple combines traditional Indigenous Knowledge and plant science.
Related Material: Ziizibaakwadgummig: The Sugar Bush.
Walking on Our Lands Again: Turning to Culturally Important Plants and Indigenous Conceptualizations of Health in a Time of Cultural and Political Resurgence
Examines the role of ethnobotany in decolonization.
"When Willow Roots Start to Thaw, People Come Back to Life...": Relations of Chukchi Reindeer Herders to Plants
Examines the relationship between reindeer herders and ethnobotany.