Ojibwe Bilingual Program (k-5), Middle Years Cultural Education (Gr. 6-9) and Senior Years Cultural Education (Gr. 9-12) come to the Centre multiple times throughout the school year to experience land-based learning through connection to the Earth, Culture, and Languages. 

Highlights this Autumn and Freeze up:

Ojibwe Bilingual Program followed seasonal cycles and 13 Moons Calendar, went critter dipping, harvested vegetables and medicines from the gardens, practiced fire building and fire safety, played games, and cooked and feasted together.

Middle Years Cultural Education experienced their first visits to the Aki Centre as a Cultural Education cohort! They connected with the Centre, land, and site features, and made slingshots and birch bark baskets, painted together, cooked and feasted together, and loved helping with hide work such as making frames, making and applying brain paste, and stretching/washing/wringing hides!

Senior Years Cultural Education listened to Tipi Teachings with Tipi Joe and Elder Mark Hall and learned how to set up and take down the tipi with help, and then independently! They helped to spread compost, harvest vegetables, save seeds, and prepare for winter around the gardens and kitchen. As always, cooking and feasting together. 

On their second visit they met with Elder Derek Courchene and Elder Wayne Manningway to listen to drum teachings and learned to make drums. The Maples cohort learned about deer and animal harvesting with Cory Demarchuk, Elder Mark Hall, and the protocols that accompany our relationships with animal relatives.