Stories and Legends

Stories and legends can emphasize the value of Indigenous food related knowledge as well as roles, responsibilities and relationships between one another and the land, plants, and animals that provide us with our food.

Sharing stories and legends will inspire and enable individuals and organizations to reflect and shift practices, and promote community food related action. Stories and legends can be told using a variety of traditional and contemporary media including: oral tradition (audio), digital video, creative writing and poetry, drama, cinema etc.

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Oct 22 2010

Padre Coyote Solves Poverty Problem

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Father Coyote Stores
By Esteban Coyotl, (Stephen Bartlett)

Story 1: The Bright Idea came to Coyote during Siesta

Father Coyote, before he became a Father, was a ragged young animal, living from meal to meal, from mouse to road runner to lizard to snake, to the occasional rabbit. Coyote was on the thin side, slightly mangy, often thirsty and hungry, and life seemed like one long struggle for survival. The area around Tucson, Arizona was hot and dry; it was the desert Coyote was born to.

Posted By: Esteban Coyotl

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Jun 2 2010

Famine Song by Sinead O'Connor

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I thought you might enjoy this youtube video as a more creative way to
get the message across other than endless amounts of text that my
messages usually contain.

Sinead O'connor does an amazing job with this song that tells the story of the
impacts of colonization in Ireland and talks about healing the people
and revealing the truth. The situation in Ireland is strikingly similar
to the situation with Indigenous peoples in B.C., Canada and around the
world. It always connects to food....simple message, but very profound
and political of course (sad but true)...

Posted By: Dawn Morrison

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Mar 17 2010

Mink & His Brother Go Fishing... and Get Caught!

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One day Mink & his brother were out fishing in their canoe. They decided to use whale blubber for their bait, as they thought this would attract more fish to their lines. Blackfish, aka... Killer Whale, stuck his head out of the water to say hello, and Mink and his brother were quite rude, and made fun of Whale! He asked what they were using for bait, and they chuckled and said "We are using the blubber of a whale... which is all it is good for... catching other fish! Hahahaha!!!"

Posted By: Cedar Copper Woman

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Feb 2 2010

Legends of the Secwepemc - Famine, the story of hunger

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Hunger or Famine was a man with a lean body, hollow cheeks, sunken eye sockets, protruding eyes, projecting jaws and teeth, and long fingernails. He lived at the top of a high mountain which had sloping sides and had no trees or bushes. Hunger could see all the slopes of the mountains from top to bottom, except in one place halfway up, where there was a bench sticking out which he could not see. On this bench, which was open and covered a considerable area, lived the deer.

Posted By: Dawn Morrison

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Feb 2 2010

Splatsin Hunting Trip

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The purpose of the trip was to teach about and promote community participation in hunting activities.

Posted By: Dawn Morrison

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