Traditional Plant Knowledge of the Tsimshian Curriculum:Keeping Knowledge in the Community

• Main Author: Thompson, Edosdi, Judith C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: UBC Faculty of Education 2021
• Subjects: Hartley Bay; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196371; https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v28i1-2.196371

Who I am and where I come fromDzenes hoti'e. Tsedze susahts’dn. Edosdi ushye. My Master's research has involved my working with Gitga'at people in the Tsimshian community of Hartley Bay. The Traditional Plant Knowledgeo f the Tsimshian curriculum that I developed for the Forests for the Futureproject has been adapted to be used in a high school classroom in the Hartley Bay School. This curriculum is being used as a method, a way for students to learn about their people's ways of knowing, and to be involved in the intergenerational transmission of traditional ecological knowledge and wisdom. I will assess and evaluate the usefulness of incorporating culturally relevant ways of bringing Indigenous knowledge into school science curricula.