Division 5 has been discussing how traditional Indigenous place names are tied to the land; including living things, geographical features, and resources that have been important to the people living on the land.

We discussed some Indigenous place names around BC and what those names tell us about the land. Here are a couple of resources we looked at today.

Native-Land.ca:  a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. (This didn’t project well in our classroom, but feel free to have a look at home!)

Pronunciation of some place names in Vancouver

From the CBC article:  Road signs along the Sea to Sky Highway offer insight into the history of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people