Traditional Ecological Knowledge
A food preservation method used by the Gitxsan people to preserve salmon.
What is smoking?
During the drying of salmon in a smokehouse, the increased heat raises this energy of the water molecules leading to evaporation.
What is kinetic energy?
Many Indigenous peoples rely on the changing of the seasons to tell time. One key indicator, the changing colour of the leaves, is caused by a lack of this compound required for photosynthesis.
What is chlorophyll?
The height of a fishtrap built as a perfect square with a volume of 125 m3
What is 5m?
The Gitxsan belief that Wiiget (Raven) created the earth is another creation story that contradicts this Western theory about the creation of the universe.
What is Big Bang Theory?
À key component of “Indian Ice cream”
What is Soapberry?
This ionic compound is used in the curing and preservation of fish by the Gitxsan people.
what is NaCl (salt)
The variola virus led to this disease that caused an epidemic that killed around 20,000 Indigenous people in British Columbia.
What is Smallpox?
The external perimeter of a button blanket with an internal perimeter of 300 cm (side lengths 100 cm and 50 cm) and a 10 cm thick border.
What is 380cm?
Which natural phenomenon led to the Indigenous groups being separated from Western Culture throughout evolution.
What is Continental Drift?
The method through which traditional ecological knowledge is passed down between generations.
What is stories/songs
Many Indigenous communities believe in the interconnectedness of all things. This concepts connects to which law that would lead to everything on earth being composed of the same matter for thousands of years, thus being connected.
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass
The continuing Salmon lifecycle is important to Indigenous people as a food source. The return of salmon to spawn is an example of this type of reproduction.
What is sexual reproduction?
The volume of a drum is modelled as a sphere with a diameter of 3 metres.
What is 113.1cm3
Many Indigenous peoples believe this natural phenomenon caused by charged particles from the sun interacting with gases in Earth’s atmosphere is the spirit of their ancestors.
What is Northern Lights (aurora borealis)
An ecology term related to Indigenous reciprocal relationships with the land.
What is sustainability?
How many valence electrons are in an oxygen atom? Answer in Gitxsan
What is k'oolt (six)
If a cell has 10 chromosomes, how many chromosomes does each gamete have after meiosis? (answer in Gitxsan)
What is xwsdins (five)?
The height of a totem pole, if a person stands 15m away and looks up at an angle of 45 degree to view its top.
What is 5m?
A natural disaster caused by a mass movement of material down this mountain led to a separation of the Gitxsan people into the villages we know today.
What is Stekyoodenhlxw?
The inner bark of this evil plant was used by the Gitxsan people as a tonic.
What is Devil’s Club?
Wa’uumst
Many Indigenous groups used willow bark extract to cure headaches. The active ingredient, salicin, is similar to the acetylsalicylic acid used in this modern pain reliever.
What is Aspirin?
A mutation of the lac operon common in Western society but less so in Indigenous communities due to different agricultural practices has led to this common ailment in Indigenous communities.
What is Lactose Intolerance?
The number of bentwood boxes made in a day if the total production cost was $10 and the cost of each box was 3 more than the number of boxes made.
What is 2 gilbil?
Indigenous peoples have been observing the night sky for thousands of years, using it as a map and calendar. LIGO is a modern technique that uses these ripples in spacetime to allow astronomers to observe invisible systems in space.
What is Gravitational Waves?