Fort McPherson navigates COVID-19 outbreak with traditional foods, online language activities – CBC

Feb 16, 2022

Community members in Fort McPherson are staying busy and keeping isolating residents well fed

As Fort McPherson grapples with a large outbreak of COVID-19 for the first time in the pandemic, those isolating have been able to take comfort in something familiar, traditional foods.

“Our people really share the food,” said Mary Taya, an elder in the community.

She said community members have been delivering home-cooked meals to those who are isolating.

This includes traditional foods like moose meat, as well as desserts and berries.

“Most of them would bring cooked berries, cranberries or blueberries — which is something that we would use out on the land, we used a lot of berries like that — it has a lot of vitamin C so we know that it’s healing for our people who are not feeling well,” Taya said.

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