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Learn about our seed library, how to save your own seeds, and more!

Hul'q'uminum' Plant Name Resources

Hul’q’umi’num’ Language & Culture Society

A searchable guide with plant stories and recordings of pronunciations.

First Voices

A searchable list of plant name recordings.

Hul'q'umi'num' Language Academy

Plant information and pronunciations provided by the Hul’q’umi’num’ Language Academy.

Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group

A guide to plants and animals of southern Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and the Salish Sea.

Video Guides

Jared Qwustenuxun Williams shares Hul'q'umi'num' plant and animal names found in the Somenos Marsh.

Genevieve Singleton shares traditional and current uses of BC coastal plants and their traditional Hul'q'umi'num' names.

Other Dialects & Languages

hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ with audio recordings provided by the Musqueam Language Department with approval of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

Squamish language recordings provided by Rebecca Duncan from the Squamish and Musqueam First Nations.

Plant stories with names in SENĆOŦEN, English, and Latin.

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