Sharing a meal in the great outdoors is part of Atikamekw tradition

In the past, and still sometimes today, certain traditional meals are prepared according to the day’s catch or harvest: fish, bannock, game and berries

Nothing is wasted, everything is used. For example, bear meat can be boiled, roasted, smoked or added to stews. Paw meat is en Elder favourite. The fat is used for cooking purposes, and can even be spread on slices of bannock along with blueberry jam.

The Atikamekw call bannock “pakwecikan” which means “to take with the hands”; no knife is needed to eat bannock!