First Nations Course with Norm Dokis

Norm Dokis, explores the Dokis First Nation forest, discussing the medicinal, nutritional, and spiritual importance of various plants while emphasizing sustainable harvesting practices.

What Norm will cover:

• Harvesting practices
• Preventive medicines, cures, and food sources
• Communicating with the forest and the medicine
• How Chaga helps protect trees
• Humans’ relation to wild harvesting
• The woodpecker as a keystone species in the forest
• Understanding Moose Maple as a resource
• Why Yellow Birch is revered to build a sleigh in the winter
• The right setting for Chaga growth
• How important it is to observe the forest