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Isaac Murdoch – Balance of Life

Ways of being on the land come with great responsibility.

Ways of being on the land come with great responsibility.

Indigenous Land Guardians

The Indigenous Land Guardians program is designed to train local Dene people to become knowledgeable in their local culture and traditions as well as current conservation and monitoring practices.

Josh Barichello shares about the Indigenous Land Guardians program in Ross River. The program is still in the development stage and Barichello is a part of the development team for the program. The program is designed to train local Dene people to become knowledgeable in their local culture and traditions as well as current conservation and monitoring practices. The program will utilize traditional and ecological knowledge with scientific knowledge to build a bridge between both worlds so that their land, wildlife, and water is being well managed.

PWK High School Sweetgrass Culture Camp

All grade 7 and 8 students attend this fall culture camp in Wood Buffalo National Park. Here they learn land-based skills, canoe safety, traditional medicines and much more. This camp is supported by the local school board and community.

All grade 7 and 8 students attend this fall culture camp in Wood Buffalo National Park. Here they learn land-based skills, canoe safety, traditional medicines and much more. This camp is supported by the local school board and community.

PWK High School Winter Camp

PWK Highschool in Fort Smith holds an annual winter expedition where students learn traditional trapping, fishing, and hunting in a safe, continuous manner. The facilitators are local Elders and knowledge keepers.

PWK Highschool in Fort Smith holds an annual winter expedition where students learn traditional trapping, fishing, and hunting in a safe, continuous manner. The facilitators are local Elders and knowledge keepers.

PWK Secondary School Chipewyan Classroom

PWK Secondary School Chipewyan classroom.

This Chipewyan language classroom for grades 7-12 teaches more than just the language. Paul Boucher passes on cultural values and laws, teaches traditional crafts, and hopes to instill a sense of cultural pride in his students.

Tłı̨chǫ Government- Jim Martin

Jim Martin has worked within the Tłı̨chǫ communities in many roles over the years. Currently, he sits as the Sr. Policy Advisor in the Priorities and Planning department with the Tłı̨chǫ Government. He also works with Dedats’eetsaa: the Tłı̨chǫ Research & Training Institute.

Jim Martin has worked within the Tłı̨chǫ communities in many roles over the years. Currently, he sits as the Sr. Policy Advisor in the Priorities and Planning department with the Tłı̨chǫ Government. He also works with Dedats’eetsaa: the Tłı̨chǫ Research & Training Institute.

Neecheewam Inc. – Whole Person Learning

Cheyenne Chartrand, Spiritual Care Provider at Neecheewam Inc., explains Neecheewam’s approach to education.

Neecheewam Inc. goes beyond pedagogical programs in an effort to redefine concepts of treatment, emphasizing cohort and peer education through an “extended family” that results in whole person learning. Whole person learning requires moving beyond the text book to include academic, professional, emotional, and spiritual growth.

Southern Tutchone Language Class

Southern Tutchone Language Class

In this interview Harold Risby talks about the Southern Tutchone language class offered at the Porter Creek School in Whitehorse Yukon. The Southern Tutchone language class starts from k to all the way to grade 12. The language class is available to all peoples of all backgrounds it is a part of a language revitalization effort.

On The Land Learning, Old Crow Yukon

Bridging the western educational world with local First Nation culture and traditions .

In this interview Francis Ross talks about the on the land learning program in Old Crow Yukon. This program is designed to achieve educational curriculum in a First Nation lens. This program fully utilizes local First Nation knowledge, culture, and traditions and fuses it with current western education curriculum. The approach allows students to become more comfortable by learning with familiarity using Fist Nations tools, methods and ways of life to meet educational goals. This program creates a bridge between the two worlds many First Nation people experience as a hardship.

Neecheewam Inc. – White Butterfly Program

Neecheewam’s White Butterfly Program works with young people to improve their lives.

Neecheewam’s White Butterfly Program sees child behaviour as another language that need to be learned. Their staff look at the children they work with as a whole, an important philosophical concept of Indigenous education, which they believe to be an integrated component of daily life.