Salal, Cedar & Spruce: A Journey With Salish Plants and Medicines

Salal berries for digestive relief, Cedar tea to reduce fevers, and Spruce tips for nourishment and congestive relief…
Traditional Salish foods and medicines are experiencing a revival in the Pacific Northwest. Indigenous peoples, environmentalists, and activists explore ways to nourish the body, mind, and spirit, fight food insecurity, address climate change and educate native youth about their traditions, which were often outlawed and nearly lost to colonization.
In this 30-minute documentary, we explore this movement toward traditional knowledge for modern times and some of the myriad ways in which that knowledge is reemerging as a sustainable way to nourish and heal people and our struggling planet.
We tour the urban woodlands with elder and traditional foods and medicines knowledge-keeper Dr. Rudolph Rÿser. We visit the Tend, Gather, and Grow urban youth program in Wild Foods and Medicines in Olympia, Washington, building a cadre of native youth who are taking this knowledge back to their tribes. We explore the sustainable farming practices of the Squaxin Island Tribal Garden regional food security project, and partake in a delicious traditional feast with the Muckleshoot tribe.
Join us on this journey toward a new sustainable future, built on strong healthy communities and traditional Indigenous knowledge rooted in a harmonious relationship with the earth.

[@barbararoyal6139]

I am so very heartfelt sorry for what was done to your people. I appreciate your endeavors to teach and renew. Thank for sharing this with all of us🌿🕊️

[@cwischannel9988]

Thank you so much!

[@maritzarodriguez8452]

May our ancestors continue to guide and heal us/ Mother Earth. Thank you for sharing this 🙏🏻

[@RenitaB.B.]

The plants are our teachers.

[@birgenschwendinger3604]

Many same medicine plants here Austria too..
Aim 54 and Nature tell me
We are all born indigene
How we grow and where and in which phase of lifestil is another story..
Natives Indigenes are arround the world
And Nature Mother Earth have All to live for All
Its faszinatin🏞️💚

[@panthermoon6984]

Wonderful video. Good to see more First Nations people of this area are connecting to the land and finding healing through cultural foodways. We all need to take climate change seriously and learn how to live with the land, not just use and exploit it. We need to revere the Earth and the old ways

[@1Lightdancer]

Wado - thank you!
My grandkids and others from 4 Oregon circles are with the Yakima people this week - learning about traditional values, culture, and doing service - grateful they have this opportunity!

[@DebLivingston-fy7bi]

❤ What a beautiful video ❤

[@birgenschwendinger3604]

Mother Nature

[@christopherjonson4072]

Thank you for this moment.

[@PSFmcverbaltronOracle]

Wado thanks for the amazing video peace and blessings to you and your tribe 😊

[@user-fo9uk4qo6h]

This is a wonderful video, it's these ideas that have inspired me to be involved more environmentally

[@vsadams]

Thank You 👏👏👏👏👏🤗💞🖐

[@cwischannel9988]

🤗

[@jsblastoff]

🌱💪

[@Mary-yl4jw]

Thank you for the wisdom shared! ❤❤❤

[@leanordials8008]

The art of noticing ♡

[@seanjustg5425]

thank yaz🌎💞