EDUC 423/457 Indigenous and Western Science

There is also a copy of this is the Trees Kit which is linked below!

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things--from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen--provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us. With informative sidebars, reflection questions, and art from illustrator Nicole Neidhardt, Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.

ch. 4. Plants, food, medicine, and gardening -- A green philosophy -- Plants are the hair of Mother Earth -- Plants and the foundations of health and wholeness -- The ecology of Native healing -- The quest for healing knowledge -- Native gardening -- "Native people loved their gardens" -- Native food contributions -- Native permaculture and agricultural technology -- Meanings and possibilities --

Includes:

Upper Stolo ethnobotany / Coqualeetza Education Training Centre
Upper Stolo interaction: a story about cedar bark / Coqualeetza Education Training Centre
Cedar harvesting [DVD]
Cedar: tree of life to the northwest coast Indians / Hilary Steward

Highlight 65 edible and medicinal plants. The cards describe traditional uses and ways of harvesting each plant and feature Indigenous languages, including Lekwungen, SENĆOŦEN, Hul'q'umi'num, and Diitiid.

All about plants Flip chart -- All about plants Activity guide -- 10 paperback books -- Plant (book with 1 CD and 1 poster -- Plant DVD -- 1 Dicot seed germination model (pea) -- 1 Flower model with guide -- 1 Plant cell model -- 12 single lens loupes -- 4 laminated posters -- Build a flowering model kit guide --What plant am I? game.

Activity cards. Biology: Life cycles (units 1A-3B) -- Chemistry : Changing materials (units 4A-4B) -- Physics : Forces (units 5A-7B) -- Earth science : Water (units 8A-9B), 8 cards per unit + 3 Place-based activity teacher cards.

A modern story of traditional Indigenous knowledge that follows a young boy and his Auntie as they gather and braid sweetgrass, one of the four sacred medicines. It's early July, and for Matthew and his Auntie that means one thing: time to go sweetgrass picking. This year, Matthew's younger cousin Warren is coming along, and it will be his first time visiting the shoreline where the sweetgrass grows. With Auntie's traditional Mi'kmaw knowledge and Matthew's gentle guidance, Warren learns about the many uses for sweetgrass--as traditional medicine, a sacred offering, a smudging ingredient--and the importance of not picking more than he needs. Once the trio is back at Auntie's house, she shows the boys how to clean and braid the grass. From the duo behind the bestsellers The Gathering and The Sharing Circle, this heartfelt story about the gifts we receive from Mother Earth and how to gather them respectfully offers thoughtful insight into a treasured Mi'kmaw tradition. Sweetgrass grows in wet meadows, low prairies, and the edges of sloughs and marshes . It grows from Labrador to Alaska, south to New Jersey, Indiana, Iowa, New Mexico, and Arizona. Widely used by North American indigenous peoples from many different Nations, it is also considered one of the "four sacred medicines" by many Plains Indians.

Stó:lō Seasonal Year chart on page 63