Bitter Root
Students from various schools took field trips to locate and identify Bitter Root to gently harvest and take back to school for cleaning and drying.
Pictographs
The Nicola and Similkameen Valleys are rich in ancient pictographs. Ochre for paint for the pictographs has been harvested from the Tulameen area, withstanding the text of time, as some pictographs carbon date past tens of thousands of years.
Cedar Harvest
Cedar has been traditionally used for smudge, medicine and weaving. Preserving for the future, the bark is harvested with a specific, delicate method.
Indian/ Kece (Labrador) Tea Harvest
Sage Harvest
Wild Celery Harvest
Nicola Valley Hoo Doos Transformer Story
Boston Bar Cultural Village
ECOmmunity Place Locatee Lands
Princeton students visit Penticton Indian Band’s ECOmmunity Place to sing Okanagan songs, listen to stories and hear how the First Nations used the land in this area, and learned about the Screech Owl.