Food

Teacher resource for educating students about environmental health through the lens of the Coast Salish lunar calendar. Activities follow the foods, resources, traditions, and practices associated with each of the seasonal changes.

A conference discussing Indian and Christian creation myths, reflections on education and religion, comparison of Indian and non-Indian values, and the loss of traditional values and beliefs and the movement to recover them.

Elders discuss: loss of values; loss of language; the role of the old ceremonies; the responsibility of the elders to teach the young people.

Provides brief information, updates, and progress on initiatives taking place in each of four regions: Western, Prairie, Central, and Atlantic.

Measures the progress towards a better and sustainable quality of life and evaluates the Nunavut Economic Development strategy.

Statistical tables. Data from Nunavut Food Price Survey. Basket items included: 2% milk, margarine, eggs, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, canned baked beans, soda crackers, canned cream of mushroom, ground beef, pork chops, wieners, canned pink salmon, white bread, frozen pizza, frozen corn, baby food in jars, macaroni and cheese dinner, spaghetti noodles, quick oatmeal, instant rice, frozen french fries, and white flour. Prices collected in March 2013 and 2014.

Provides brief information, updates, and progress on initiatives taking place in each of four regions: Western, Prairie, Central, and Atlantic.

Statistics. Data from Nunavut Food Price Survey, CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) 326-0012. Prices collected March 2014.

Statistical tables. Data from 2014 Nunavut Food Price Survey. Prices collected March 2014.

Statistical tables. Basket items included: 2% milk, margarine, eggs, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, canned baked beans, soda crackers, canned cream of mushroom, ground beef, pork chops, wieners, canned pink salmon, white bread, frozen pizza, frozen corn, baby food in jars, macaroni and cheese dinner, spaghetti noodles, quick oatmeal, instant rice, frozen french fries, and white flour. Prices collected in March 2015 and 2014.

Statistics. Data from Nunavut Food Price Survey, CANSIM (Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System) 326-0012. Prices collected March 2015.

Statistical tables. Data from 2015 Nunavut Food Price Survey. Prices collected March 2015.

Statistical tables. Categories: vegetables and fruit, milk and alternatives, grain products, and meat and alternatives. Prices collected March 2015.

Lists costs in each community and compares prices to the Nunavut average. Categories: vegetables and fruits, milk and alternatives, grain products, and meat and alternatives. Data gathered in March 2015.

Basket items included: 2% milk, margarine, eggs, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, canned baked beans, soda crackers, canned cream of mushroom soup, ground beef, pork chops, wieners, canned pink salmon, white bread, frozen pizza, frozen corn, baby food in jars, macaroni and cheese dinner, spaghetti noodles, quick oatmeal, instant rice, frozen french fries, and white flour.

Source for Canadian statistics: Statistics Canada, System of National Accounts, Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) table #326-0012.

Both food and non-food items.

Statistics on select vegetables and fruit, milk and alternatives, grain products, and select meat and alternatives.

Lists prices in each community, region and Nunavut as a whole.

Basket items included: 2% milk, margarine, eggs, potatoes, carrots, bananas, apples, canned baked beans, soda crackers, canned cream of mushroom, ground beef, pork chops, wieners, canned pink salmon, white bread, frozen pizza, frozen corn, baby food in jars, macaroni and cheese dinner, spaghetti noodles, quick oatmeal, instant rice, frozen french fries, and white flour.

Source for Canadian statistics: Statistics Canada, System of National Accounts, Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System (CANSIM) table #326-0012.

Also includes prices for other household products such as bathroom tissue, foil wrap, diapers, etc.

Statistics on select vegetables and fruit, milk and alternatives, grain products, select meat and alternatives, and liquids. Listed for Nunavut as whole as well as Kivalliq, Baffin, and Kitikmeot regions.

This brief article summarizes the documentary film by the same title; the project interviews Rwandan women who are using Indigenous knowledges and practices in combination with modern technologies to create income for themselves through the production of banana wine, sorghum beer, soured or fermented milk, or through the cultivation of Indigenous vegetables.

This documentary film interviews Rwandan women who are using Indigenous knowledges and practices in combination with modern technologies to create income for themselves through the production of banana wine, sorghum beer, soured or fermented milk, or through the cultivation of Indigenous vegetables. The film is accompanied by a brief article.

Evidence suggests that due to the nutritional deprivations experienced by children in residential schools, there is a high prevalence of metabolic risk factors among Indigenous peoples in Canada.

Discussion of the Gitksan and Wet'suwet'en tradition of berry patch burning.

Profiles initiatives from across the state of Victoria, Australia including food banks, community kitchens and gardens, and food share and school nutrition programs.

Lesson plans for K-12 in the areas of: English, Social Studies, Math, Science and Physical Education. Includes some instructional videos.

University of Saskatchewan author David Natcher was a member of the panel.

Emphasizes the benefits of breast feeding of infants and proper hygiene which has worsened under European influences.

Reports findings of the Learning Garden program conducted with the Ginoogaming First Nation and the Aroland First Nation.

Reports on how a return to a, 'bush diet' has resulted in some Australian Aboriginals being cured of diabetes.

For use by adult learners. Curriculum designed for people who want to safely prepare food, find local food sources and promote traditional harvesting, work in the food industry or take the FOODSAFE Level 1 course. Worksheets link to one or more of nine essential skills.

Translation of journal recorded by Delessert of his journey to Australia and his eight months in Sydney.

Includes: printed and audiovisual materials, kits, and posters and games. Updated version of 2006 edition with the same name..

Looks at the ways the European settlers kept Aboriginal women from accessing their own land and depriving them of harvesting their staples.

Discusses four-year study of Sioux and Winnebago peoples to develop and evaluate a diabetes education program; they found education about diet and diabetes is not enough, when access to healthier diet is a continuing problem.

Main goal of study was to establish the cost and availability of Nutritional Food Basket items in the region and nearby urban centres; secondary objectives were to determine the cost of food by category, the variation in average minimal cost of items, and verify expiration date of some of the items in the basket.

Describes the, 'bush' foods and medicinal choices available to Aboriginal people before widespread European influence appeared in the Australian outback.

Brief report on how Australian health worker incorporates local traditional medical practices into preventative health work.

Brief description of the Hamatsa ritual.

Discusses attitudes toward the dead and traditional medicine.

Adam Hardisty gives a general account of his life including techniques for gathering wild rice.

Consists of an interview where Adam Solway talks about being orphaned at 8 years and adopted by the Blackfoot Reserve, Alta; his attendance at a residential school; becoming a councillor and then chief of the reserve. He comments on the issues he had to deal with as well as providing comments on contemporary lifestyles and leadership.

Looks at how small rural communities whose food source is mostly local wildlife are dealing with major environmental changes.

Discusses the fact that a traditional diet is 20 mg per day well below the national standard but dietary calcium absorption was more efficient.