Wellness/Health
Weaving a Story describes the importance of inkle looms to creating Métis sashes that are meaningful to individuals.
In the interview, Teresa Bryne discusses the meaning of the colours of the Métis sash. Through workshops, Weaving a Story tells the history of the sash, the creation of a sash on a loom, and how to create your own.
The Little Métis Sing With Me program offers resources for facilitators, parents, and children. The resources include songs, rhymes, dance, Michif language, take-home books, and crafts.
Little Métis Sing With Me program is a parent-child program with three strands: Family literacy Essential skills Métis culture and history This is an exciting program with lots of wonderful resources for facilitators to share with parents and children: songs, rhymes, dance, Michif language, take home books, crafts, and guests. Little Métis Sing With Me Training Workshop A three-day workshop to train participants to run their own Little Métis Sing With Me programs. All participants receive a facilitator’s manual and all resources. Also included are a combination of dance, songs, rhymes, books, and activities to enhance the training and provide ready-made resources for the program. Registration fee is $125 per person or $2,500 for your group (max 20 participants). Please contact us for upcoming training dates and to find out how to apply for funding to set up this program in your community.
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.
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.
As an Indigenous child-birthing advocate, Leslie Anne Wilson supports women and families in Saskatchewan.
Leslie Anne Wilson is a Nakota-Cree woman of the White Bear people. Wilson discusses the need for an Indigenous birthing network and she works proactively to instill an Indigenous midwifery and doula initiative in Saskatchewan. This initiative intends to reclaim Indigenous knowledge and traditional ways of birthing and parenting. She explains, women are the backbone of families and they need support. Wilson brings together teachings from grandmothers about birthing and womanhood for women to become empowered mothers. We must take care of our women because they are the ones caring for our children. It is integral to our development that we learn experientially off of the land and take care of the Earth for future generations.
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.
EmpoweringU, Financial Wellness Program helps students stay in university.
Many students drop out of university because they’re broke. The EmpoweringU, Financial Wellness Program has three goals: 1) Provide University of Manitoba Indigenous students with the tools and skills they need to make informed financial decisions; 2) Relieve stress caused by financial pressures; 3) Help students find the financial resources they need to stay in school. The program partners with awards officers to explain scholarships & bursaries and offer onsite application assistance. An Indigenous dietitian speaks about eating healthy on a budget, focusing on the traditional, cultural, and spiritual aspects of preparing a meal. There are budgeting & debt reduction workshops and sessions on the importance of filing taxes to access benefits. The EmpoweringU program has been generously funded by Hubert Kleysen, LL.D/14, Bernice Kleysen and Cambrian Credit Union.
After attending EmpoweringU sessions, students know how to open up a bank account, budget, apply for student loans, bursaries, scholarships and thrive at university.
After attending EmpoweringU sessions, students know how to open up a bank account, budget, apply for student loans, bursaries, scholarships and thrive at university. Coming from the north, Cindy could not believe the quantity of healthy food you could buy for $120. “If you were to buy that stuff up north, it would have been, like $300, $350. It was really nice to know that you could actually spend such little money and have a lot of food.” EmpoweringU runs its programs in Migizii Agamik; it’s a place where Indigenous students from all over get together. It’s a place to study; you talk about back home; it’s nice, warm and like family. You learn how to live on a budget.
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.
Ce programme vise l’inclusion de l’artisanat innu en milieu scolaire. L’artisanat est inclus en tout temps dans les écoles primaires et secondaires de la communauté d’Unamen shipu (La Romaine) afin de préserver et de transmettre l’art innu. This story is not available in English. Please select another language option.
Ce programme vise l’inclusion de l’artisanat innu en milieu scolaire. L’artisanat est inclus en tout temps dans les écoles primaires et secondaires de la communauté d’Unamen shipu (La Romaine) afin de préserver et de transmettre l’art innu.
This story is not available in English. Please select another language option.
