Links to Jared Qwustenuxun Williams' great videos, TED talk, book and CBC interview on Indigenous foods, Coast Salish Indigenous plants and their Hul'q'umi'num names

Jared Qwustenuxun Williams is a father and husband, Indigenous foods educator, chef, filmmaker and an 
award winning writer. He is the former Elders' kitchen manager in the Cowichan community near the place called Duncan, BC. 

Qwustenuxun is doing research with Elders in his community and teaching all over BC on Coast Salish food traditions and the ways that our relationships around food configure our whole ecocultural systems. He is working with the UBC Orchard Garden and our 2023 project funded by the Jane Goodall Institute to create some new short videos around some of the Coast Salish Indigenous plants that are now an integral  part of our food forest at the garden.

Some links to Jared Qwustenuxun William's great work. What a wealth of knowledge and respectful, collaborative work is shared here! We raise our hands in gratitude and appreciation.

Interview with CBC Radio's Jason D'Souza on All Points West, June 21, 2023

Qwustenuxun's TEDx talk, Royal Roads University, June 2023: The Power of Indigenous Foods

Jared's articles on Coast Salish foods and other important topics in The Discourse Cowichan

Link to a free pdf download of the book he has written and published with Feed BC: Cooking in Two Worlds: A Process Guide for Incorporating Indigenous Foods into Institutions

His website and consulting firm

Home playlist page: Short videos with Jared's son Qwustenuxum Williams on Coast Salish food plants and their Hul'q'umi'num names: wild cherry, licorice fern, salal berries, chanterelle mushrooms, 'witches butter' fiddleheads, salmonberry and thimbleberry shoots, maple blossoms, nettles

Hul'q'umi'num names for Coast Salish plants: nootka rose,; snowberry;  plants and animals in Somenos Marsh (including plants like spirea, grass, Himalayan blackberry, camas, bare stem desert parsley, cow parsnip, tall Oregon grape and ocean spray); three trees -- red cedar, yew, broadleaf maple; winter plant words including moss, licorice root, sword fern, low Oregon grape.

Hul'q'umi'num words for the months of the year

Home playlist page for all Hul'q'umi'num language and pronunciation videos

Home playlist page for Cooking with Qwustenuxun, including steaming nettles