Rebuilding our Mississauga Nation Youth

Alternative Roots is the initial project that was created in 2013 at Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation to engage youth in cultural activities and create a safe place for them on weekends and after school. Rebuilding our Mississauga Nation Youth came out of the above project and a Nationwide strategic goal initiated in 2014, to reinstate and revitalize cultural and clan identity in the six communities of Mississauga Nation as a whole. This is a community based, collaborative looking to build Land Based Sustainability Practices, the cycle of life and sciences by calling upon elders/knowledge keepers, spiritual/ceremonial wisdom advisors and various other role models. Activities include reconnecting with the family roots through learning each other’s culture, history, customs, language, songs, dances due to the separation and isolation created through the government policies. Furthermore, the program will also focus on reclamation and wellbeing to build relationships within and across Indigenous communities and learn about and define what reconciliation means for themselves. Furthermore, creating gardens, learning to save the seeds 13 moon cycle teachings, grandfather teachings, medicine wheel teachings will also be part of the program.