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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

This ground juniper was beside the board walk that leads up the side of The Rock, to the Pilots' Monument. Many parts of the plant are used in traditional medicine. The berries are eaten as food.

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

This species of Labrador tea has fewer stamens and broader leaves. Labrador tea is used medicinally, by Indigenous people, both as a drink and as a bath preparation.

2014-09-28

Campbell, Sandy

A shrub that produces small scarlet stone fruit. The seed is large and flat. The taste is tart and the berries have a strong smell.

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.

2015-08-30

Campbell, Sandy

Indigenous people use rose hips as a source of vitamin C

2017-07-06

Campbell, Sandy

A member of the gooseberry family, skunkberries or skunk currants are found across nothern Canada. This edible berry has a strong odor and bristly. Skunkberries can be used to make jelly and were used as a traditional medicine by Indigenous people.

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.