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The new knowledge required to work with these unfamiliar ingredients and to survive in Canada’s harsh environment would have …View 2 Article with Article Header 2

This bench overlooks the river and burial mounds (Photo: Chris McEvoy, Rusty Anchor Productions)

Present. Preserve. Protect.

Kay-Nah-Chi-Wah-Nung Historical Centre, the Place of the Long Rapids, is a historically significant meeting place located along …View Present. Preserve. Protect.

Visitor Centre at Petroglyphs Provincial Park

Kinomaage Waapkong – The Teaching Rocks

When one makes the journey to Kinomaage Waapkong – known in English as Petroglyph Provincial Park – one is struck by the …View Kinomaage Waapkong – The Teaching Rocks

Voices of Chiefs Point exhibit

Voices of Chief’s Point

In 1938, Londoner Dr. Edwin Seaborn worked with Anishinaabe Elders, Pe-wak-a-nep (also known as Robert Thompson) and his wife …View Voices of Chief’s Point

Ahneen, which means ‘Hello’ in Anishinaabemowin, is written on the front step of the Native Canadian Centre.

More than words: why I’m trying to learn the language of my ancestors

Losing our talk

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Kiinwin Dabaadjmowin “Our Story,” completed in 2002

Remembering our ancestors

“The importance of knowing your story is to have a sense of belonging and if you have this, you will have a sense of …View Remembering our ancestors
Four major rivers with numerous falls and rapids flow across the site. (Photo: Pimachiowin Aki Corporation)

Pimachiowin Aki – Canada’s newest World Heritage Site

On July 1, 2018, during the 42nd Session of the World Heritage Committee in Manama, Bahrain, Pimachiowin Aki was inscribed on …View Pimachiowin Aki – Canada’s newest World Heritage Site

Curve Lake. (Photo courtesy of Markus on Flickr. CC-BY-NC 2.0)

All land is sacred

According to all First Nations on Turtle Island, ALL LAND IS SACRED. We do not consider that some places are more sacred than …View All land is sacred

Dr. Wesley-Esquimaux (left) with Elizabeth Penashue, who was born into an Innu hunting and trapping family that lived at Kanekuanikat, between Esker and Churchill Falls, Labrador. Penashue moved to Sheshatshiu in the 1960s when her family and her people were encouraged to relocate in order to integrate them into Canadian society through education and a more settled lifestyle. Photo courtesy of the author.

Suffrage and Indigenous women in Canada

What has it been like to grow up in a society only now beginning to take note and respect the contributions of Indigenous …View Suffrage and Indigenous women in Canada

Elsie Knott, Canada’s first elected woman chief

Canada’s first elected woman chief

Elsie Knott was born at her Curve Lake home on September 20, 1922 to George and Esther Taylor, the fifth of six siblings. …View Canada’s first elected woman chief

Inaugural convocation of students from the Bachelor of Arts in Ogwehoweh Languages program at Six Nations Polytechnic, June 7, 2017. (Photo: Six Nations Polytechnic)

Still alive and speaking

When you consider the connection between language and culture, you need to keep in mind that you can never really fully …View Still alive and speaking

Front cover of Dr. Brian McInnes' book "Sounding Thunder: Stories of Francis Pegahmagabow"

The Elders taught me

At its deepest level, culture frames how we see the world; the unique way that we think and act is intimately related to the …View The Elders taught me

Creation Twins, watercolour by author Rick Hill shows the Haudenosaunee concept of Creation.

Clay connection – Indigenous living and creativity

A couple of decades ago, I witnessed a friendly debate between a white historian and an Indigenous ethnologist. The well known …View Clay connection – Indigenous living and creativity

Small hand-held artifact

The gift of time travel

In the summer of 1982, I was carrying out archaeological research near the shores of Hudson Bay on the Severn River. One of the …View The gift of time travel

Thonnakona – a Huron-Wendat sacred cultural landscape in the city of Vaughan, and resting place of the Ancestors. Photo courtesy of Melanie Vincent 2016

The heart of North America

There are many stories that we can share. Well, first of all, the word “Ontario” itself. Many people don’t know what it means. …View The heart of North America

Josephine Mandamin (Photo courtesy of Josephine Mandamin)

Walking with the water

When we walk with the water, we pray for the water. The water that we carry, we pray for it, and we pray to it; we speak to it. …View Walking with the water

Christ Church, Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal of the Mohawk – Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

Christ Church, Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal of the Mohawk – Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

During the American Revolution, the Mohawks were forced to flee their homeland in upper New York State. In 1784, after spending …View Christ Church, Her Majesty’s Chapel Royal of the Mohawk – Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

Métis sash {Photo courtesy of M. Margaret Froh}

The Métis sash

Métis youth leader Katelyn LaCroix was recently asked what being Métis meant to her. She replied that “like the sash, we are …View The Métis sash

Indigenous artifacts (Photo courtesy of Mélanie-Rose Frappier)

On the path to reconciliation

Education is key. It will lead to healing as well as social awareness about the Indigenous culture. My ancestors spent hundreds …View On the path to reconciliation

The Maymaygwayshi, or water sprite, painted on a cliff near the mouth of the Nipigon River

Someone has passed this way before

I’m standing on the deck of a small boat, riding the swells of the Nipigon River where it widens into Lake Superior. In front …View Someone has passed this way before

In addition to representing mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health, the quadrants of the medicine wheel are often used to represent the four seasons, stages of life, directions and elements of nature. The colours and colour placement in medicine wheels vary from nation to nation.

Indigenous traditional medicine

“Traditional medicine” refers to knowledge and practices of Indigenous peoples that promote health and well-being, and that …View Indigenous traditional medicine

Oiseau Rock, a sacred site for aboriginal peoples who have left behind a remarkable legacy of ancient pictographs drawn using red ochre (Photo courtesy of Larry Graham)

Along the Ottawa River

The original Trans-Canada Highway

The Ottawa River is one of Canada’s most important transportation routes, playing an …View Along the Ottawa River

Thonnakona Ossuary

Thonnakona: Returning the ancestors to the land

On a calm, clear Saturday in September 2013, 1,760 Huron-Wendat ancestors were reburied at a secluded and peaceful …View Thonnakona: Returning the ancestors to the land

Ken’niiohontéhsa (strawberries) (Photo: Ryan DeCaire, Wáhta Mohawk Territory)

Understanding indigenous agricultural systems

Throughout a long history, indigenous peoples – with their rich cultural diversities and complexities – have continued to live …View Understanding indigenous agricultural systems

Reconstructed longhouse and palisade at the Lawson site

The archaeology of southwestern Ontario

Southwestern Ontario has an extremely rich and diverse cultural history dating back 11,000 years. We can follow human history …View The archaeology of southwestern Ontario

Aerial view of the northern tip of Walpole Island First Nation looking southwest along the St. Clair River (Photo: Karen Abel)

Bkejwanong: Sustaining a 6,000-year-old conservation legacy

Nestled at the mouth of the St. Clair River on Lake St. Clair in southwestern Ontario is the Walpole Island First Nation or …View Bkejwanong: Sustaining a 6,000-year-old conservation legacy

Ste-Anne-des-Pins, Sudbury

Churches of “New Ontario”

In the middle of the 19th century, northern Ontario remained much as it had been under the French regime – a region of Catholic …View Churches of “New Ontario”

Interior of Assumption Church, Windsor

Ontario’s rich religious heritage

From the First People who for thousands of years conducted religious and cultural ceremonies at places they believed held …View Ontario’s rich religious heritage

Christ Church Anglican, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory

Christ Church and the Queen Anne Silver

Located in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on the Bay of Quinte, Christ Church houses a silver communion service dating to 1712. …View Christ Church and the Queen Anne Silver

The Wychwood Barns covered street is a popular weekly Saturday farmers’ market in Toronto (Photo courtesy of Ayako Kitta, du Toit Architects Limited)

Resources: Heritage in the new economy - Making sense of sustainability

What's on the shelf

The Shield, part of the Ontario Visual Heritage Project.

Over …View Resources: Heritage in the new economy - Making sense of sustainability