• Wellbriety Circle – A culturally based approach to healing

    The weekly Wellbriety Circle at the Dilico Anishinabek Family Care Centre in Fort William First Nation, near Thunder Bay, Ontario, offers a culturally based approach to support healing from addiction and intergenerational trauma. The program uses cultural values and teachings to address not only addiction but co-occurring disorders and the deep wounds of intergenerational trauma. While rooted in Indigenous cultural practices, the program welcomes participants from all backgrounds.

  • 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.

  • St. Kateri Bursary paves the way for Indigenous students

    Providing financial support for Indigenous students in their educational journey is a key part of reconciliation. Bursaries often play an important role in opening the door to continuing studies, fostering self-esteem, and cultivating skills that students can later contribute to their communities.

  • Healing Together in the Residential School Survivor Listening Circle

    Residential schools have left wounds of generational trauma and cultural disconnection not just on those who attended the institutions, but on their children, grandchildren and other family members. In Thunder Bay, Ontario, the Indigenous Ministry understands the need for intergenerational healing and connection and has created the Residential School Survivor Listening Circle, a place for sharing stories and finding healing.

  • 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.

  • Empowering Urban Indigenous Healing

    The Mashkiwizii Manido Foundation provides services and programming that address mental health, addiction and trauma recovery needs of the urban Indigenous population in Renfrew County, Ontario and surrounding areas.

  • Renewing Cultural Harmony: Revitalizing Indigenous Language Through Music

    In the heart of the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation on the Bruce Peninsula, a remarkable initiative called the "Renewal of Spirit Through Music" project is breathing life back into the Indigenous language of the Neyaashinigmiing community.