It’s Pow Wow Time!
Treaty 2 Territory- Pow Wow time is the our Nations’ way of meeting together, to join in dancing, singing, visiting, renewing old friendships, making new ones and most importantly celebrating and honouring traditions. Essential to a pow wow are the dancers and the singers. The songs of the “Big Drum” are sung by the men who sit around […]
JUNE IS NATIONAL INDIGENOUS HISTORY MONTH
Treaty 2 – In June, we commemorate National Indigenous History Month. It’s time to recognize and celebrate the rich history, knowledge, contributions, and diversity of our first peoples across Canada. “WE ARE STILL HERE. WE CONTRIBUTE. WE ARE DIVERSE. WE HAVE AN ANCESTORAL AND ONGOING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LAND.” WE ARE THE FIRST PEOPLES We […]
Earth Lodge: Decolonizing Ourselves
Treaty 2 Territory- By definition, colonization occurs when a group of settlers migrates into a territory and then takes over and begins to control the Indigenous group living there. In Canada, colonization occurred when colonizers migrated to this land, took over and began to control our First Nations Peoples. Colonizers imposed their own cultural values, religions, and […]
THE EARTH LODGE: OUR NATURAL LAWS
Treaty 2 Territory- The Earth Lodge is based on the Anishinaabek Traditional Lodge. It’s structure and governmental framework is based on traditional and ancestral ways of governance, learning, language, peacemaking, history, healing ways and world views. It is all about providing a good life for our people as was always the intent from our ancestors. The […]
THE ANISHINAABEK MEDICINE WHEEL
Treaty 2 Territory- Numbers have always played a significant part in traditional Aboriginal life. Many aspects are seen in terms of four. The Sacred Mystery, the source of all creation, reveals itself as the Powers of the Four Directions and these four powers provide the organizing principle for everything that exists in the world: the […]
The Earth Lodge
Treaty 2 Territory- The Earth Lodge is based on the Anishinaabek Traditional Lodge (Long Lodge Ceremony). Its structure and all that flows from it is based upon the natural laws of creation. For example: traditional forms of government, social frameworks, ways of learning, communication, language, our relationship with the land, medicine, health, law, peace, protection, history, artistic […]
MOOSE HIDE CAMPAIGN: Standing Up Against Violence Towards Women & Children
Treaty 2 Territory- May 12th is Moose Hide Campaign day. The inspiration for the campaign came to co-founders Paul Lacerte and his daughter Raven in 2011 when they were hunting together on their traditional Carrier territory. They were close to the Highway of Tears in northern British Columbia, where so many women, particularly Indigenous women, […]
Spring Equinox – A Time for Change, Growth and Renewal
Sunday, March 20, 2022 Treaty 2 Territory -The equinoxes mark the changing of Earth’s orientation and are significant to our yearly calendar – along with the moons, days, and solstices. The equinoxes occur when the earth reaches a position where the sun crosses the equator. For us in the Northern Hemisphere, the March equinox means […]