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On-the-Land Learning with Demian Lawrenchuk, Fox Lake Cree Nation, MB

Demian Lawrenchuk has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities in Gillam, MB.

Demian Lawrenchuk is from Fox Lake Cree Nation in Manitoba. Lawrenchuk is in an apprenticeship program with community Elders, who are teaching him about the traditional use of land, plants, and animals. He volunteers his time at both Fox Lake School and the school in Gillam, Manitoba where he has led a Christmas break school program that focuses on land-based cultural activities. The activities included making and setting snares; catching animals (rabbits, martins, etc.); skinning, tanning, cooking, and making clothes out of them. The program offers students an opportunity to reconnect with the land and reinforce a sense of cultural and historical continuity with their ancestors. During the 2017-2018 school year, he has shown the grade 4-8 classes in Fox Lake how to garden vegetables, clean certain kinds of fish, plant medicine, skin a martin, and make a drum.

Louis Riel Institute Adult Learning Centre

A non-linear adult learning program in Manitoba that has a literacy focus in partnership with the University of Winnipeg.

The Louis Riel Institute Adult Learning Centre is a Manitoba certified Adult Learning and Literacy Centre. We are partnered with the University of Winnipeg Collegiate and funded by the Province of Manitoba’s Adult Learning and Literacy branch.

http://www.louisrielinstitute.com/adult-learning-centre.php

ENGAP and the Three Sisters

ENGAP works to encourage pre-university students to enagage in the sciences. Their metrics of success are not quantified just on graduation rates.

The Engineering Access Program (ENGAP) offers assistance for Indigenous persons engaged in university studies in Engineering. ENGAP offers an array of academic, social, and personal to meet the needs of its students. ENGAP has also expanded its mandate to include publication of a series of books focused on various forms of Indigenous technologies, intended to increase its outreach.