Walking with Aalasi: An Introduction to Edible and Medicinal Artic Plants

Publisher's description (Inhabit Media, 2009): "How can we know who we are" asks Aalasi Joamie, author of this book, "If we don't know about where we live?" The place is Nunavut and in this book Aalasi Joamie shares her traditional knowledge about plants in some of the northern regions of Canada. Spectacular photographs, charts as well as written text (in Inuktitut and English) teach about plants and their uses, but also how the knowledge was learned and passed down. A good resource to show how Indigenous knowledge and western science work together.

Resource format: Picturebook

Age recommendation: grades 1-7

Keywords: land-based learning, Elders, traditional knowledge, Inuit, Inuktitut, plants, medicine, oral tradition, Nunavut

Year of publication: 2009

Publisher information: Inhabit Media