What's in a name?
The English name for miqen is this.
What is Beacon Hill?
This purple flowered plant has a bulbous root which can be cooked and eaten.
What is Camas?
There are 7 of these markers around downtown Victoria. Collectively they are referred to as this.
What are The Signs of Lekwungen?
The rock piles with rock circles around them are actually these.
What are burial cairns?
The most commonly known use of this place with the purple flowers was.
What is harvesting camas?
Miqen is in this Indigenous language
What is Lekwungen?
Death Camas has a poisonous bulb, which cannot be eaten. When in bloom, it has this colour flower.
What is white?
The giant scupltures at these Lekwungen places around downtown Victoria are meant to replicate this tool.
What is a spindle whorl?
European settlers and tourists would dig up these burial plots believing that these bones belonged to this group.
What is "a people from the past" or "people no longer in existence"?
Regular controlled burns were done in this area to care for this ecosystem and provide open savannah for this animal to graze, and be hunted!
What are deer?
In short form, Miqen means this in English
What is "warmed by the sun"
Camas was prepared using this cooking method.
What is pit cook?
The tools these sculptures are designed from were used for this purpose.
What is spinning wool?
More of these burial spots around present-day Victoria were bulldozed and destroyed to make room for these.
What are houses?
The tree that is essential to this ecosystem and is also endangered is.
What is a Garry Oak?
The longer translation of the word miqen is known as...
What is, the place where people come to have their bellies warmed by the sun?
This method was used by locals to identify where the death camas was during harvest time.
What is tying cedar around the base of the plant?
The wool for these tools was historically gathered from this type of animal.
What is a dog?
An amendment to the Heritage Conservation Act stated that any grave site in existence after 1846 should not be BLANK but sites from pre 1846 could be with proper permits.
What is disturbed or dug up?
The point below the hill was used for this purpose.
What is a defensive village site?
Land of the Smoked Herring. Before this place was called Victoria, it was known by this name.
What is Lekwungen or Land of the Lekwungen?
The bulb that is harvested here is often referred to as a cross between an onion and this starchy vegetable.
What is a potato?
Another location of these "signs" in Victoria is
What is, RBC Museum, Songhees Point, Laurel Point, Downtown Inner Harbour, Victoria City Hall, OR HBC Fort
Some of the cairns in Victoria have been dated back this far.
What is 1500 years?
This game, similar to field hockey, was often played in the fields of this area.
What is coqwialls?