Culture 2023 Pikwakanagan IYCFF First Nation First Nation Band

Piskàkonawe Pimàdjiwowin (Rekindling our connections)

Funded Amount: $30000
In a series of three land based culture camps, Indigenous youth will experience cultural teachings specific to three different seasons within their traditional territory. Included is a backcountry hiking camp to learn from the land as our ancestors did, a hunting camp to learn about the honourable harvest, and a winter camp trip to learn how to thrive in harsh weather. Key learning opportunities will include: wild edible plant foraging, relationship and responsibilities with plant medicines and with moose, how to traditionally harvest a moose to provide sustenance and self sustainability, building a jig board, ice fishing, snowshoeing, ice safety, Fire Keeping, animal adaptations, navigation, and water filtration.