By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer On a frigid prairie day, students from northern Saskatchewan gathered outside \u2014 not for recess, but for a lesson. Dressed in layers against the December wind, they stood around a freshly harvested buffalo. There was no textbook. Instead, knives were passed between mittened hands, as they learned to skin, gut, and cut the meat for their own school lunches. The buffalo harvest project, led by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council and its member First Nations, is changing how a generation thinks about food, tradition and self-sufficiency. \u201cIt\u2019s a food source, so there\u2019s this nutritional value, but it\u2019s so much more than that,\u201d said Tammy Shakotko, a community nutritionist with Meadow Lake council. \u201cThe real value is cultural \u2014 the social… <\/p>\n
By Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer On a frigid prairie day, students from northern Saskatchewan gathered outside \u2014 not for recess, but for a lesson. Dressed in layers against the December wind, they stood around a freshly harvested buffalo. There was no textbook. Instead, knives were passed between mittened hands, as they learned to skin, gut, and cut the meat for their own school lunches. The buffalo harvest project, led by the Meadow Lake Tribal Council and its member First Nations, is changing how a generation thinks about food, tradition and self-sufficiency. \u201cIt\u2019s a food source, so there\u2019s this nutritional value, but it\u2019s so much more than that,\u201d said Tammy Shakotko, a community nutritionist with Meadow Lake council. \u201cThe real value is cultural \u2014 the social... <\/p>\n