Saskatoon berries and leaves at Frame Lake in Yellowknife, NWT

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• Saskatoon berries grow across Northern Canada and are used both as a food source and as a traditional medicine. The berries start out green and are a deep purple when they are ripe.

• Date created

  2015-07-10

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Speqpeq7úw̓i (Secwepemc or Shuswap)
  • Sugar pear
  • Serviceberries
  • Amelanchier alnifolia (lat)
  • Petites Poires (fre)
  • June berries (United States name)
  • Misakwatōminatik (cre)
  • Ki jie (chp)
  • Msāskwatuwmin (cre)
  • Indian pear (old name)
  • Saskwatoomina (cre)
  • Misaskatoomena (cre)
  • Plants - Northwest Territories
  • Country food - Northern Canada - Photographs
  • Medicinal Plants - Northern Canada
  • K'ęàjie (Dene)
  • Saskwatōmin (cre)
  • K'eedzii (Tlicho)
  • Shadberries
  • Wild fruit - Northern Canada
  • Saskatoon berries - Yellowknife, NWT
  • Traditional food
  • K’ñjíé (xsl)
  • Photographs
  • 2015/07/10
  • Canada, Northwest Territories, Yellowknife

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3MN00

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 International