The Thunder Bay District Health Unit has developed a new curriculum for 14 First Nations communities, focusing on Indigenous food sovereignty and traditional harvesting practices. The curriculum, created in collaboration with knowledge keepers, elders, and advisory circle members, aligns with a 2022 Food Sovereignty Assessment conducted with the communities. It will be implemented in kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 through the TBDHU’s Understanding Our Food Systems project.
THUNDER BAY — The Thunder Bay District Health Unit has launched a new curriculum for 14 First Nations around Indigenous food sovereignty aligning with the traditional harvesting resource put together by knowledge keepers, elders and some of the unit’s advisory circle members.
Currently, the Superior-Greenstone District School Board, where Bartlett works, is using the curriculum after testing out the resource last year in two of its schools. “It works on this 13 moons curriculum and it talks about traditional harvesting and eating foods that are within the seasons and it walks children through this as a calendar as opposed to the traditional Gregorian calendar that we use,” said McGibbon.
With people coming from different places around the land they’re working on, McGibbon said these videos recognize and talk about respecting communities that might have different names for these moons and also learning from the elders and knowledge keepers in their area. As a dietitian, McGibbon added she often talks about Canada’s food guide as one way of eating and a traditional way of thinking about food, but this curriculum is another way with “lots of beautiful benefits for people to have a chance to look around.”
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