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To access the full curriculum, visit the Native Plants and Foods Curriculum Portal.

In order to protect the plants and Native American cultural knowledge and stories featured in the curriculum, we ask that anyone using the materials read the Tend Teacher Guide, watch the Honoring Plants, Places and Cultural Traditions video, and take a multiple-choice quiz on the portal. Consider the plant information and stories featured in the curriculum as gifts, and the quiz as an opportunity to reflect on the generosity, intentionality, and purpose with which it is shared—a means of honoring the work.

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Plant Teachings

Cottonwood: Wellspring

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.

Plant Teachings

Hawthorn: Courage

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.

Plant Teachings

Native Berry Walk

A movement activity with Rachel Smart and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.

Plant Teachings

Nettle: Build Inner Strength

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.

Plant Teachings

Plantain: Self-Soothe

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.

Plant Teachings

Willow: Flexibility

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.


Plant Teachings

Yarrow: Boundaries

This video features a movement activity with Chenoa Egawa and accompanies the Plant Teachings for Growing Social-Emotional Skills Toolkit.


Tend, Gather & Grow

Alder

Tend, Gather & Grow

Bentwood Box: Traditional Cooking Methods

Tend, Gather & Grow

Bigleaf Maple

Tend, Gather & Grow

Camas: Traditional Cooking Methods

Tend, Gather & Grow

Douglas Fir

Tend, Gather & Grow

Honoring Plants, Places, and Cultural Traditions

Tend, Gather & Grow

The Art of Noticing

Tend, Gather & Grow

Tree Communities – Student Green Congress

This workshop was held live over Zoom on March 16, 2021 as a webinar during the 28th Annual Student Green Congress. This webinar features Elise Krohn, Mariana Harvey, and Kim Gaffi of Garden Raised Bounty (GRuB). You can learn more about GRuB on their website at https://www.goodgrub.org/

Tend, Gather & Grow

Wild Spring Greens

Swinomish 13 Moons

Moon of Digging Time (Camas)

Swinomish 13 Moons

Moon of the Blackberry

Swinomish 13 Moons

Moon of the Salal Berry

Swinomish 13 Moons

Moon of the Salmonberry

Swinomish 13 Moons

Swinomish Community Visits a Clam Garden

Swinomish community members visited a clam garden in British Columbia during the summer of 2019. Clam gardens are an ancient Indigenous technology of carefully tended terraced beaches that increase clam productivity. Watch this video to learn more about clam gardens and why they are so important to Indigenous people.

Cedar Box Stories

Camas: Attention to the seasons

Cedar Box Stories

Clams: Growing in community together

Cedar Box Stories

Deer and Elk

Learn how hunting and food gathering is a spiritual experience that allows Native peoples to honor the land and the sustenance it provides.  This deer-dressing demonstration, put on by Northwest Indian College during its 2012 Our Food is Our Medicine conference, hoped to motivate others to embrace traditional food gathering ways. The demonstration coincided with other native foods being cooked by traditional methods, including clams, salmon and vegetables.

Cedar Box Stories

How Nettle Saved the People: Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha)

Elders and traditional stories tell us that the plants are our first teachers. If we learn to listen with all our senses, we begin to understand the many gifts they carry. Join storyteller Roger Fernandes to celebrate the awakening of spring and the teachings of nettle.

Cedar Box Stories

Huckleberry: Traditional foods are whole foods

Cedar Box Stories

Seaweed: A source of superfood energy

Cedar Box Stories

Shellfish: Seeds for the next generation

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