• Algonquin language program at Kateri Native Ministry

    New to the Kendaasawin Project is a week-long Indigenous Language Training Program. The program will feature a language teacher who will share and teach the Algonquin language to Indigenous participants on Kateri land. To ensure inclusivity, all on-site events will have an online counterpart, enabling remote participation for those unable to attend in person.

  • Youth performance group to help revive Mohawk culture

    The Mohawk Community of Akwesasne is dealing with the deep impact of Residential Schools, which have led to an erosion of the Mohawk language and culture, particularly among Akwesasronon children and youth. One clear void is the lack of opportunity to pass on Mohawk traditions like social and ceremonial singing to future generations.

  • Harvesting for Healing: Reviving Traditional Knowledge in Alderville First Nation

    The "Harvesting for Healing" project is a community-driven effort to keep alive important skills such as harvesting, hunting, and fishing.

  • Ribbon dress and skirt making class to revitalize Indigenous craft traditions

    In many Indigenous communities, there is growing worry about the loss of the sacred connection achieved through the shared practice of learning traditional crafts. A ribbon dress and shirt making class in Thunder Bay looks to restore cultural values through the art of crafting.

  • A teepee for Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation

    To provide a safe, inclusive, and culturally relevant space for such teachings, Gull Bay Sacred Heart of Jesus R.C. Church has chosen to purchase a teepee. The teepee will serve as a hub for land-based activities and a space for sharing knowledge, language and culture between Elders, spiritual leaders, Knowledge Keepers, youth, and children.

  • Growing Together: Healing with Indigenous Foods and Medicine

    For many Indigenous communities, food is medicine and medicine is food. Growing food is a connection to Traditional Knowledge and others in the community. Indigenous women, especially, hold important wisdom about healing with traditional plants.

  • Learning Ojibwe: Language classes as a gateway to healing and identity

    Boozhoo, a greeting, and miigwech, an expression of gratitude – these words are the foundation of the Ojibwe language. In a deliberate attempt to sever the ties that bound Indigenous people to their cultural roots, speaking Ojibwe or any other Indigenous language was forbidden in the residential school system, resulting in a loss of cultural identity that is still acutely felt in communities today.

  • Restoring Culture, Healing Hearts: The Akwesasne Kateri Prayer Circle

    The Akwesasne Kateri Prayer Circle of the Kana:takon district of Akwesasne in Quebec consists of members of the St. Regis Mission Akwesasne Altar and Rosary Society, and the Akwesasne Mohawk Choir. The initiative's main goal is to revitalize the Kanienkeha Mohawk Language and culture through prayers, hymns, and traditional music

  • Embracing the Seventh Fire: A Journey of Cultural Revitalization

    The Circle of Turtle Lodge, an organization based in Deacon, Ontario, at the head of Golden Lake in unceded Algonquin Territory, has been dedicated to reviving, promoting and restoring Traditional Anishinabe Culture in the Ottawa Valley since 1999.

  • Reviving Tradition: The Restoration of St. Pius X Church at Yuquot, BC

    The village of Yuquot, the traditional home of the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations, is located on Nootka Island, British Columbia. At the heart of the village stands St. Pius X Church, a symbol of cultural significance and community unity.