Tinp’si’na is still being cut by Nakota families in the form of a traditional food source and therapy

Heather O’ -Watch says that the harvesting of tinap (wild turnip in Nakoda) in June is the time for family and friends to pass with traditions and teachings.

She said that she takes crops with 14-year-old Kenny Shepard-Owatch, and she used to harvest with her father, Woodro O’-Watch, who learned skills from her grandparents when he was just a boy.

“It was really unprecedented that 50 years later, I am here,” he said, because after all these years he is still out with his family.

O’wach first heard of Wildlis Tanjam in 2018 when she was going down in South Dakota, where she had so many selected, she asked her father about her.

“This is actually a good plant. You can cook with it, you can trade with it and you can give it away,” O’ -Watch said, which is about 120 kilometers north -north of Regina, from Okni First Nation in Suskechewan in Suskechewan.

He said that the first nation in Suskechewan once did a wild turnip business for goods with Ukrainian settlers, and later showed them where to find them so that they would be a food source during the famine on praise.

Tinp’si’na are seasonal plants, she said, and they are ready to be cut as soon as possible in May, but they are the largest in late June.

O’Watch said that he likes to grow on tinnap hills and coule, often sticks in warm sunlight. He said that there is a purple color and the delicious part is about 6 inches in the ground.

“You can get out in hot sun, but once you pick them up it is rewarded to braid them,” O “said.

O’Watch stated that Tinp’si’na was a food source for the people of the grounds that could be boiled, dried or eaten raw.

O’wach said, “Women used to go out and take their children out and so children used to go and search for them, present them, and the woman dug them and then hurt them.”

He said that after the introduction of aggressive plants in the region, he is surprised that the wild turnip is still rich.

“This plant is resistant. It is still here. You can still find it in untouched areas like this part, here in the pasture … I have been thought of this plant, such as the first nation’s people, despite changing everything around us, it is still alive,” O’Catch said.

Food and medicine

Like the O’watch, choosing Wildeljam likes to do some gym red eagle, 69, with his wife and daughters’ house in Dakota.

Red Eagle, Carrie The kettle learned to harvest tinap as a young boy with his grandparents, from Nakoda Nation.

He said that the month of June is known as “tinp’si’na itkáȟča wi”, meaning that when Tinp’si’na flowers open or go to seeds in nakoda and Lakota languages.

“They have a taste similar to a mushroom,” the Red Eagle said, which makes soup and pemicons with them.

Tinp’si’na are not only a food source, but can also be used as a drug, red eagle can be shared.

Red eagle, which is one Knowledge guardSaid that Tinap’a is rich in Vitamin C and K, and it also includes fiber to promote digestive health.

Red Eagle said that tinnap education as a medicine was passed with his grandparents and uncles, and now he tells him as he chooses.

He says that there are lessons with his family that shares about braiding turnip together, but also what it represents.

Red Eagle said, “This is why we braid in three varieties. For our family, our people and food are medicine.”

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O’watch shared harvesting is a fun activity to connect with your family to land and culture, but it is good that if you ever have no food and have no food, you will be able to rely on the tinap if you know how to find it.

O’wach said, “I really made it a mission to continue harvesting turnip with family and friends every year.”