Cedar Box Teaching Toolkit

Title

Cedar Box Teaching Toolkit

Description

Educational resource and curriculum about important Native foods and cultural traditions in Salish Country with recipes, activities, and stories. There are sections on ecosystems, harvest ethics, cedar, water, camas, cattail, clams, deer and elk, duck, hazelnut, huckleberry, nettle, salal, salmon, seaweed, and strawberry.

Creator

Elise Krohn

Valerie Segrest

Contributor

Abe Lloyd

Elizabeth Campbell

Joyce LeCompte

Abstract

This Toolkit is an educational resource featuring important native foods in Salish Country
and the rich cultural traditions that surround them. The foods were selected because of their high nutritional value, cultural significance, and reasonable availability. The toolkit includes:
• A cedar bentwood box, cooking tongs, cooking rocks, display containers, teaching cards and preserved samples of 13 native foods.
• Videos about foods and food traditions that feature native storytellers.
• A curriculum including Salish food descriptions, recipes, stories and activities.
• A Feeding 7 Generations poster.
• A Feeding 7 Generations recipe book.
Educators can use the cedar box toolkit in a variety of settings including classrooms, community workshops and other educational events. Possible presentation formats include a “show and tell” overview of Salish foods, an exhibit, or a complete curriculum for teaching in depth classes on individual foods.
The information in this curriculum only scratches the surface of the vast cultural knowledge for each food. We hope that you can add your own community knowledge, stories, artwork, preserved foods and language to your toolkit over time.

Publisher

Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board

Date

February 11th, 2018

pages

1-106

Language

en

uri

Cedar Box Teaching Toolkit

Is Part Of

State of the Salish Sea