2024-11-25

Steven Ginnish - Field Trip on Mi’kmaw Knowledge and Use of Plants and Animals

Keywords:

aging trees, Balsam Fir pitch, Black Spruce, burls, Forestry, forestry health, Golden Thread, Mother Earth, Red Oak, Tamarack, White Pine

Archive Collection:

The Mi'kmaq of Nova Scotia Archives Collection - Curated by Dr. Trudy Sable

Participants:

Steven Ginnish [Natoaganeg (Eel Ground) First Nation]

Date:

Oct. 26, 2000

Location:

Eel Ground First Nation, New Brunswick

The research was included in Dr. Sable’s PhD Thesis entitled: ‘Emerging Identities: A Proposed Model for an Interactive Science Curriculum for Mi’kmaw Students’, University of New Brunswick, Faculty of Education, October, 2005.

Sponsorship for the archiving of this video is through the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, with funding from the Department of Canadian Heritage, Aboriginal Languages Initiative Program (2018-2021)

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