Programmes
Mishkodeh : A Place to Engage, Reawaken and Share
“Land-based learning is education, community, and skills building or training that takes place outdoors in particular places of local significance, often on traditional Indigenous territories. Teachings can include land-based language learning, harvesting, hunting, trapping, fishing, medicine gathering, bush survival skills, and traditional land-based scientific knowledge and culture and often involves Elders and Knowledge Keepers as teachers. The importance of building relationships and the bonding that occur on the land is emphasized both with participants and educators as well as relationships with non-human relations.”
~the National Centre for Collaboration in Indigenous Education
Learning opportunities on this land known as a Mishkodeh will be developed using this land-based learning way of seeing, knowing, and connecting and will be an Indigenous-led process. It will be a collaborative endeavour and will involve many voices from our communities.
“The worldviews that humans have about the Land and the natural environment vary depending on cultural identity and practices, and through personal connection to the Land. A shared worldview by many Indigenous Peoples is that we are only borrowing the Land from future generations, and that there is a responsibility to be stewards of the Land, to respect, and protect it. The Land provides everything we need as humans to survive. To live in balance with the natural environment, humans must be responsible with the natural resources that the Land provides. The Land is an integral part of Indigenous identity, spirituality, culture and way of life.” (ETFO Indigenous Land-Based Learning document)
The Mishkodeh will provide Indigenous and Non-Indigenous community members the opportunity to understand this responsibility as stewards of the land.
