Foundational Knowledge for Indigenous Education

Thousands of years before Europeans arrived, Indigenous people thrived across the land eating local food. I wanted to share some of my favorite Indigenous recipes and Indigenous-inspired recipes that you can make at home.

By decoding the DNA of the beaked hazelnut, a team of scientists is providing new insight into how ancestral Indigenous peoples stewarded plants across the province.

Learn about the Indigenous practice of harvesting wild rice in Canada and it is prepared for storage so it can kept and traded.

A food guide developed by the First Nations Health Authority to encourage Indigenous peoples eating more traditional foods in their diets.

Learn about the importance of the Three Sisters in the diet of Indigenous peoples of Canada

The Indigenous Food Systems Network website serves as a hub for Indigenous food and food sovereignty related resources and research.

For millennia, Indigenous communities have maintained forest gardens, a type of historically managed ecosystem, along the Pacific Northwest coast.

A collection of 16 Indigenous recipes with notes included from cooks and dieticians.

This cookbook is available for free download and is filled with great tasting and healthy recipes.

A poem in the footnotes by Métis writer and academic Jessie Loyer. Students will learn about the process to make pemmican and may reflect on how culture shapes our understanding of the world. Recommended for grades 9-12 by the author.

Learn about a Canadian government project to learn more about why the Three Sister works so well together in agriculture and ways their growth could be more optimized.

This web publication has the purpose to describe and to reference the published literature on traditional animal foods known and used by Indigenous Peoples of northern North America. We present information on the locations of the cultures whose peoples have used, and often continue to use, these foods.

A booklet developed by the Native Women's Association of Canada to encourage the eating of traditional healthy foods to assist in the management of diabetes

This article examines traditional Indigenous farming in Southern Ontario which has been practiced for more than 1000 years.