Since time immemorial, First Nations peoples have been living and thriving alongside Mother Earth: the water, air, land, and spirit. Traditional foods provide naturally nutrition-rich subsistence for humans and animals to flourish. Traditional foods include items such as wild rice, saskatoon berries, moose, caribou and trout fish.
Main ideas in the video:
- Traditional and seasonal eating off the land
- Respect for the land and water
- Natural/nutritious foods
- Canada’s Food Guide
Additional Resources
- Grow Up Healthy: A Resource Booklet for First Nations and Metis Parents in Manitoba
- Canada’s Food Guide
- Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide – First Nations, Inuit and Métis
- Heart Healthy Lesson Plans (Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada)
- Manitoba Healthy Foods in Schools
- Middle Years Human Ecology: Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes, 2018 (Manitoba Education and Training)
- The Northern Manitoba Food, Culture, and Community Collaborative
- “The Nutritional Health of the First Nations and Métis of the Northwest Territories: A review of current knowledge and gaps” by Regine Halseth (National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health)
- “Where to Buy Indigenous Traditional Food in Winnipeg” (Food Matters Manitoba)
