by Craig Takeuchi on February 7th, 2021 at 2:00 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
While Vancouver has numerous restaurants that offer the full spectrum of cuisines from around the world, many people remain unaware of the cuisines that originate from the cultures and societies of these lands before colonization.
There are numerous efforts to raise greater awareness and understanding, and among them are two B.C.–based food TV series that can help to educate viewers not only about Indigenous cuisine, but also about this province and its history, traditional and modern cooking techniques, and more.
With travel on hold during the pandemic, these shows are safe way to tour the province and beyond, and a means to visit some places, spaces, and faces you may not have been aware of or had access to.
Show host Tracey Kim Bonneau visits with Donna Denison, creator of Little Creek Dressing, in an episode of Quest OutWest Wild Food. A documentary TV series which explores Indigenous cuisine and culture across British Columbia is set to launch its third season this month. The new season of the culturally rich show, Quest OutWest Wild Food, will air on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network on Feb. 11. From the forests of Vancouver Island to the shores of the Okanagan, viewers are invited to follow host and producer Tracey Kim Bonneau as she stops to meet old friends and new, prepare tasty meals and share traditional knowledge.
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Seeing Indigenous Canada in South Sudan
It was the parts of South Sudan where First World and Third World conditions overlapped that reminded me of the Canada I knew. Mingkaman internally displaced camp in South Sudan. Alissa Everett/ Getty Images
When I landed on the tarmac in Juba, South Sudan, in August 2018, the airport was nothing more than a large army-green canvas tent held up by wooded beams. I was here because the journalism-training organization Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) had invited me to visit as part of a culture and knowledge exchange with South Sudanese journalists. The skeleton of a new airport sat a stone’s throw away but, like many things in South Sudan, construction had been interrupted by five years of civil war. Three days before I landed, peace was declared, not for the first or last time. There was hope but it
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“What happens when someone overtly steals something from you, like your lands, your culture or the identity that’s yours?” asked Tamara Bell on Monday.
Tamara Bell is from the Raven Clan, Haida Nation
The Haida filmmaker launched a campaign on Jan. 18 for Canada to create legislation to stop a longstanding trend: People fraudulently claiming Indigenous identity to gain funding or opportunities.
The proposal comes one month after acclaimed filmmaker Michelle Latimer resigned from the CBC television series Trickster in December. She has been accused of not being Algonquin or Metis as she has claimed for decades.