Foundational Knowledge for Indigenous Education

Elder Bertha Skye discusses the value of teas from plants as medicine

The elder speaks about the correct way to pick medicines from the land.

Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) Elder in Residence Bertha Skye talks about various Indigenous medicines and cultural practices. This episode discusses allergies.

Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) Elder in Residence Bertha Skye talks about various Indigenous medicines and cultural practices. This episode looks at the Birch tree.

Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) Elder in Residence Bertha Skye talks about various Indigenous medicines and cultural practices. This episode looks at Labrador Tea.

Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) Elder in Residence Bertha Skye talks about various Indigenous medicines and cultural practices. This episode looks at the power of Cedar.

Aboriginal Students Health Sciences (ASHS) Elder in Residence Bertha Skye talks about various Indigenous medicines and cultural practices. This episode looks at the Rat Root.

Basic information about the four sacred medicines (tobacco, cedar, sage, and sweetgrass), and how they are used and kept. From an Anishinaabe perspective.

Sacred Red Cedar, along with sweetgrass, sage and tobacco, is one of the Indigenous sacred plants used by Indigenous and Métis Peoples

This is the last in our series on Indigenous sacred plants. Sage, along with sweetgrass, red cedar and tobacco, is one of the four plants considered sacred by First Nations and Métis Peoples.

Sweetgrass is one of the four plants (tobacco, sage, red cedar and sweetgrass) considered sacred to Indigenous, Inuit and Métis Peoples.

Tobacco, one of the four (sweetgrass, sage and red cedar being the other three) sacred plants of Indigenous Peoples has a very long history and a conflicted present.

An overview of some of the medicinal plants used by Indigenous Peoples in Saskatchewan.

A video about the traditional harvesting of sweetgrass that was produced by the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority.