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2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Cranberries are a traditional food among Indigenous people in Northern Canada. There are two species of cranberry. This one has an opaque skin and a mealy or pulpy fruit. The other one has a juicy berry with a translucent skin and is also known as lingonberry.

2015-07-09

Campbell, Sandy

Blueberries are a common wild fruit that is used as both traditional food and traditional medicine by Indigenous people in Canada's North. This painting is attached to the exterior corrugated metal wall of the Yellowknife Inn, located at the corner of 50th Street and 50th Avenue in Yellowknife,...

2015-07-09

Sandy Campbell

This painting is one of a set of fruit paintings that are attached to the outside wall of the Yellowknife Inn.

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Wild raspberries are a part of Indigenous peoples' diets in the Northwest Territories. They have also been used in traditional Indigenous healing.

2015-07-09

Campbell, Sandy

The south wall of the Yellowknife Inn faces a parking lot at 50th Street and 50th Avenue. The Urban Art in Yellowknife exhibit includes cut-out paintings of birds and wild plants that produce edible berries. This painting is of the raspberry and shows the foliage and the green and ripe berries....

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Indigenous people use rose hips as a source of vitamin C

2015-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

Smoking of fish is a traditional way of preserving it for winter. Many families have smoke houses at their traditional fish camps. Today, smoked fish is often bagged and frozen for later use.

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Young shoots and leaves can be boiled and eaten as greens. Stinging nettles are a good source of vitamins.

2015-07-10

Campbell, Sandy

This gooseberry bush was growing close to the shore of Frame Lake. Gooseberries have traditionally been used as a food and contain vitamin C.