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Todd Labrador discusses the importance of traditional knowledge and harvesting in the Mi’kmaw birch bark canoe building workshops that he runs in Atlantic Canada and across the country.
Todd Labrador discusses the importance of traditional knowledge and harvesting in the Mi’kmaw birch bark canoe building workshops that he runs in Atlantic Canada and across the country.
Jenelle Duval, the Events Coordinator at First Light, describes the language camps and land-based learning programs that the centre offers to community members in St. John’s, NL.
Jenelle Duval, the Events Coordinator at First Light, describes the language camps and land-based learning programs that the centre offers to community members in St. John’s, NL.
Clayton Paul Episkenew shares his experience as a survivor of residential schools and alcoholism. He uses these experiences to help inmates at the Regina Correctional Centre.
Born in Fort Qu’Appelle in the late 1940’s, Clayton Paul Episkenew lived in a mud shack built by his father, who was very proud to have built a home for his family. When Clayton was six years old, an Indian Agent told his father that he must send his children to the residential school. Despite his father’s initial refusal, Clayton was sent to the residential school in Lebret. In the three years that Clayton was forced to stay at the residential school, he learned only how to hate and how to be afraid of people. When he was 15 years old he started drinking and he drank for 27 years. Alcohol caused him to do things which kept him in and out of jail.
By 1986, he had joined an AA program and quit drinking. He began to accept authority and the people he worked with when he learned that he was needed. Knowing this made him comfortable to disclose his experience at residential schools and allowed him to hold his job at the City of Regina for 33 years. Since retiring, he works at the Regina Correctional Centre and makes a difference by talking with inmates, giving them advice, and sharing relatable stories from his own experiences. He uses traditional values like the pipe and smudge – he makes his own tobacco and knows how to pick a few medicines.
Program aimed at improving academic performance among students from grades 8-12 through the provision of resources, computer lab and tutoring.
Name: After School Tutoring Goal: To help and guide Aboriginal high school students bridge transition from elementary to high school. Where it is offered: F.H. Collins Residency Dorms When: Monday to Thursday 4pm to 7pm For whom: Any student from grades 8-12 Website: www.skookumjim.com
The Nya:weh program is “a ‘stay in school’ initiative, to assist and support First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students in elementary and secondary education. NYA:WEH is responsible for empowering Indigenous students toward success, through personal, social, and culturally based educational support” (niwasa.ca). Nya:weh is offered under Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg at 3 elementary schools and 5 […]
The Nya:weh program is “a ‘stay in school’ initiative, to assist and support First Nation, Métis, and Inuit students in elementary and secondary education. NYA:WEH is responsible for empowering Indigenous students toward success, through personal, social, and culturally based educational support” (niwasa.ca). Nya:weh is offered under Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg at 3 elementary schools and 5 high schools in Hamilton, Ontario just outside Six Nations of the Grand River and New Credit. http://niwasa.ca/programs/nyaweh-native-youth-advancement-with-education-hamilton/
The overall goal of Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg as stated on their website is, “to provide high quality, wholistic programs and supports that foster Indigenous identity formation and a sense of belonging. The 13 Moons and the 4 seasons are the foundation for Indigenous Pedagogy that is embedded in all program areas.” (niwasa.ca). Niwasa provides programming […]
The overall goal of Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg as stated on their website is, “to provide high quality, wholistic programs and supports that foster Indigenous identity formation and a sense of belonging. The 13 Moons and the 4 seasons are the foundation for Indigenous Pedagogy that is embedded in all program areas.” (niwasa.ca). Niwasa provides programming in schools on Six Nations of the Grand River reserve and in Hamilton Ontario. Niwasa is geared towards preschool to highschool aged students, with elementary & highschool programming under the Nya:weh program. Families of students are included in the sharing of traditional teachings so that they can learn alongside their children. http://niwasa.ca
Sound financial management is the same as honoring the animal; use it all, waste nothing, and feed your family for the winter.
Money Stories is a program that grew out a collaboration between SEED Winnipeg and the Aboriginal Seniors Resource Centre. The program incorporates traditional teachings and money management training for youth; the program emphasizes passing on knowledge and culture. The program is after-school; the participants are hungry, they are fed; some are parents and child-minding is provided. People learn from each other’s experiences: the program creates a safe, respectful, story-telling environment.
SEED offers full-time, summer employment to six graduates of the program who share their knowledge with other youth serving organizations.
Skahendowaneh teaches components of Trent University’s Ph.D. program and Indigenous Studies undergraduate program in the areas of Indigenous Knowledge, Iroquoian culture and language.
Skahendowaneh (pronounced ska-hen-DOE-wan-ay) Swamp is a highly respected Mohawk (Wolf Clan) Faith-keeper from Akwesasne. He is Trent University’s inaugural Chair of Indigenous Knowledge, a position that is the first academic chair of its kind in Canada and all of North America to be awarded to an Indigenous Elder or traditional person. He is actively involved in research and in transmitting Indigenous knowledge to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as to departmental and university colleagues. In addition, as Chair, Mr. Swamp is involved in several cultural facets of the Indigenous Studies program and the wider community.
Le programme Protection et exploitation des territoires fauniques, volet Premières Nations est offert depuis 2017 auprès du Centre régional d’éducation aux adultes des Premières Nations (CREA) de Uashat Mak Mani-utenam. Ce projet est unique en son genre en ce qu’il permet non seulement l’acquis de nouvelles théories, mais surtout, un volet pratique qui comprend plusieurs […]
Le programme Protection et exploitation des territoires fauniques, volet Premières Nations est offert depuis 2017 auprès du Centre régional d’éducation aux adultes des Premières Nations (CREA) de Uashat Mak Mani-utenam. Ce projet est unique en son genre en ce qu’il permet non seulement l’acquis de nouvelles théories, mais surtout, un volet pratique qui comprend plusieurs semaines sur le territoire innu. Le programme comprend plusieurs ateliers pratique en forêt sur la pêche, la chasse, la trappe, la survie, la cuisine et enfin, la connaissance de la faune et de la flore. La formation qui est offerte est bilingue français-innu, “tout s’enseigne selon les méthodes québécoise et innue” (Radio-Canada, 2018). La formation est d’une durée de 1320 heures et est le fruit d’un travail de collaboration entre plusieurs partenaires. Une autre particularité est qu’il n’y a pas de manuels de cours étant donné qu’ils sont souvent sur les territoires. L’apprentissage passe donc davantage par la pratique et la tradition orale que par l’enseignement de manuels de cours. À ce propos, Évelyne St-Onge, professeure et aînée du programme ajouta : ” C’est comme ça vient. On n’a pas de livres. Un cours de langue, ça serait différent, mais ça, c’est des façons de vivre, des façons de faire (Radio-Canada, 2018)”. De plus, en fin de programme, les étudiants ont la chance de partir à la rencontre d’une autre communauté issue des Premières Nations ailleurs au Canada (et qui sait, peut-être un jour ailleurs dans le monde). À l’été 2018, ils sont partis rencontré la Première Nation Haida à Sandspit, en Colombie Britannique. Enfin, bien que le programme soit récent, il démontre déjà un franc succès. Des 16 étudiants inscrit à l’automne 2017, 15 ont gradués en 2018 et plusieurs ont déjà trouvé des emplois (Radio-Canada, 2018). Voici le lien de l’article de Radio-Canada : https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/1096001/savoir-ancestral-innu-garde-parcs-petf Ainsi que la page du programme : http://www.conseilscolaire-schoolcouncil.com/petf-pn.html
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Melissa Oskineegish interviews the program coordinator Joy Niemenen and Elder Dolores Wawia about Lakehead University’s Native Nursing Entry Program (NNEP). The NNEP is a nine-month preparation program that helps Indigenous students gain the necessary skills and academic requirements needed to enter the nursing degree program at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Melissa Oskineegish interviews the program coordinator Joy Niemenen and Elder Dolores Wawia about Lakehead University’s Native Nursing Entry Program (NNEP). The NNEP is a nine-month preparation program that helps Indigenous students gain the necessary skills and academic requirements needed to enter the nursing degree program at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
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