the tsleil—waututh population is growing. right now, i'm going to take you to one of our protected areas. it's known as shell midden, one of our areas where we place our food scraps. what i mean by our food scraps is, like, oursalmon bones, our crab shells, our clamshells. why do you think it's important that travellers do engage with indigenous culture? i think it's a real eye—opener when i share the knowledge, the history, the songs. i think they leave with a lot more respect for the land and for the indigenous people. and that's a really beautiful gift to share with someone. oh, yeah. yeah. i feel that when i share my songs — that's our medicine. the drum is the medicine for our people and there's a lot of power to it. and when people hear the drum, that's the same feeling that i get. so, with an understanding of the history of indigenous food, back at the truck, i am keen to sample paul's modern take. well, thesejust look so delicious. golden, fluffy. should i? should i do it? yeah, do it. mmm! so delicious. and then the

les is a knowledge keeper for the tsleil—waututh tribe.that, um, that it was our land and that we use it as a summer village. back over there, where it's a little bit flatter and more grass, that's where we would harvest our salmon. we'd hang our meat — our meat, our elk from the trees, our deer from the trees. we'd pick berries — there's always berries here in the summertime, so we'd spend a lot of our summers gathered here. the tsleil—waututh population is growing. 0nce dropping to under 20, today, the nation is over 600 people strong. so, right now, i'm going to take you to one of our protected areas. it's known as shell midden, one of our areas where we place our food scraps. what i mean by our food scraps is, like, oursalmon bones, our crab shells, our clamshells. why do you think it's important that travellers do engage with indigenous culture? i think it's a real eye—opener when i share the knowledge, the history, the songs. i think they leave with a lot more respect for the land and for the indigenous people. and that's a really be