A food tasting event took place at the Northern Heritage Centre on Jan. 26 as part of an archival photograph exhibit celebrating food in the NWT, named SA国际影视传媒楧elicious!SA国际影视传媒�

The prepared foods for consumption were meant to demonstrate the many ways that Northerners gather, prepare and enjoy many types of meals and snacks.

SA国际影视传媒淎 lot of people may not have access to country food, as we call it here,SA国际影视传媒� said Erin Suliak, territorial archivist with the NWT Archives. SA国际影视传媒淎nd the other thing to celebrate is the knowledge and to learn from Yellowknives Dene First Nation (YKDFN) SA国际影视传媒� how they cut the food and talk about how the food has been prepared.SA国际影视传媒�

Stacey Sundberg, of the Yellowknives Dene, worked with museum staff to source all the food and find people willing to do demonstrations at the event. Sundberg, who was raised in Dettah, said it was an honour to help and she commended the territorial government for hiring local people, especially First Nations people from the homeland SA国际影视传媒� people who are using this land traditionally to tell their own stories from their own perspective. She added that showcasing whitefish is great and meaningful.

She said that whitefish SA国际影视传媒渋s a very big part of my peopleSA国际影视传媒檚 diet. They lived off of this type of fish for centuries. Before colonialism, our people would go around the land during the time to harvest, and thereSA国际影视传媒檚 a couple of areas that they will go harvest, and one of them is Yellowknife River. Our people sustained themselves from that fish, so I think it is really important to start with (whitefish), and to move on to the animals like rabbit.SA国际影视传媒�

Sundberg added that recognizing the Inuvialuit and Inuit cultures is also important.