Local Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)
- Knowledge Keepers: A MOA Original Documentary SeriesKnowledge Keepers is a MOA original documentary series which documents traditional Indigenous knowledge keepers. See the land currently known as British Columbia in ways you’ve never seen it before as these individuals give us an inside look at the world we live in—through the eyes of a person who has thousands of years of oral history in their ears, and thousands of years of tradition in their blood.
Richard Armstrong discusses siwɬkʷ (water).
Leon Louis out on the land discussing medicines to help with COVID-19.
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By Prof. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2013
Gathering Moss: Gathering Moss a Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2003
Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2013
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Principles of Tsawalk: An Indigenous Approach to Global Crisis by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2011
Plants, People, and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2020
Traditional and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Modern Era by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2020
Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library: PA N45 R54 2008 ; Okanagan Library: GF50 .O74 2008Publication Date: 2008
Wisdom of the Elders: Native and Scientific Ways of Knowing about Nature by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2014
The Earth's Blanket : Traditional Teachings for Sustainable Living by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2005
Recovering the Sacred : The Power of Naming and Claiming by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library: N L34 R43 2005; Okanagan and Koerner Library: E98.R3 L33 2005Publication Date: 2005
Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library: ED C35 L66 1994Publication Date: 1994
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2019
