such a great honor listening Elder Kat Norris on the opening ceremony of the Hastings-Sunrise Neighbourhood Food Week. Thank you for sharing your emotional story, your knowledge about life and indigenous worldview and for teaching us to listen and how to be the change. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Kat is from the Lyackson First Nation and a survivor of the Kuper Island Residential School. As an Elder, she is a cultural educator, speaking at Universities and Neighbourhood houses. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ After, Leona Brown showed how to traditionally prepare Devil's Club, a healing and medicinal west coast Indigenous plant. She is involved in the study, harvest and uses of Indigenous plants in the urban setting. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The event is held by the Vancouver Urban Food Forest Foundation and runs until Sunday. Check out their page for more information. . . . #NeighbourhoodFoodWeek #vancouver #HastingsSunrise #indigenouslifeways #indigenousplants #eastvan #eastvancouver #elderkatnorris #food #vufff #VancouverUrbanFoodForestFoundation #foodweek #devilsclub (at Hastings - Sunrise) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUDvmVtvf6I/?utm_medium=tumblr
