It's meaningful for her to share generations of traditional skills like hide-scraping or porcupine quillwork. Zeller-Calihoo's mother, Jodi Calihoo-Stonehouse, said other parents have asked her about teaching their children Indigenous land-based skills. Students at Tl'etinqox School in British Columbia learn to fish by dipnetting, left, and start a fire with a flint and steel. Grice said the Tl'etinqox chief has specifically encouraged his school to do more land-based learning since the pandemic began. Indigenous families who choose to pursue land-based education have another option outside of the classroom, he said.

Source: CBC News August 31, 2020 03:33 UTC