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2015-08-30
Bunchberries are an edible berry found throughout the boreal forest and into the Canadian North
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2015-08-30
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.
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2015-07-09
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.
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2015-08-30
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.
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2014-10-01
Stobbs, Robyn, Digital Library North
Muktuk is the edible part of the whale skin, the layer between the skin and the blubber. It contains high levels of vitamins C and D. Traditionally it is eaten raw.
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2014-09-28
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.
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2015-08-30
Wild raspberries are a part of Indigenous peoples' diets in the Northwest Territories. They have also been used in traditional Indigenous healing.
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2015-07-09
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....
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2015-08-30
Indigenous people use rose hips as a source of vitamin C
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2017-07-06
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.