Upcoming Programs and Events
All time zones listed in Atlantic Standard Time (AST)
Basket Making w/ Hannah Martin
Join us for a 1-day workshop with Reclaiming Our Roots Community Knowledge Keeper, Hannah Martin of We’kopekwitk/Sikue’k sharing one of her most precious ancestral skills, passed down to her by her late Grandmother, Jean Martin. Participants can expect to learn the basic techniques of basket making and leave the workshop with a small basket and a full heart.
This workshop is made possible by the support of the Shubenacadie Canal System Transitions Project.
Reclaiming Our Roots March Break Retreat
An Opportunity Open to Indigenous Youth Aged 18-30(ish)
Tatamagouche Centre, Nova Scotia
A March break land based learning, healing, and wellness retreat focusing on the themes of lateral love and remembering how to be good relatives as we transition into Spring and into a “new normal” with restrictions lifting. Specific activities TBD but you can expect a lot of the Reclaiming Our Roots favorites: land based values and teachings including plant ID and usage, ceremony, self care, and mindfulness opportunities, connecting with supportive peers, and time to reflect and/or work on personal projects.
Register here
L'nu Men's Sacred Fire & Sweat lodge Teachings Event Registration
A 4-Day healing event at the Tatamagouche Centre for young men 18-30 which will feature sacred fire, sweat lodge, and essential Indigenous men teachings. Special guests, knowledge keepers, and helpers include Ms. Georgina Doucette, Joe Francis, Lawrence Wells, Lottie Johnson, Marilyn and Marilyn-Leigh Francis, Marian Nicholas and Brenda Christie.
Event coordinator and oversight by Marilyn Francis
Land Based Cooking Part 2: Moose Curry
A three part workshop series all about integrating traditional foods into a contemporary diet. This workshop will be led by Reclaiming Our Roots’ extended Anishinaabe fam, Kanina Terry of Lac Seul First Nation. Kanina is an Indigenous Community Based Culinary Arts Instructor working on reclaiming skills and knowledge denied to her as a result of Residential school, colonialism, and assimilation. Please join us in learning common beginner cooking techniques using the nourishing food that the land and animals provide. Ingredients will be provided and delivered in the HRM area by Reclaiming Our Roots.
Learn With Us: Reclaiming Our Roots Session
Open to the public - Halifax North End Public Library
A partnership between Reclaiming Our Roots and Every One Every Day Halifax, a program that is working to bring North End neighbours together to do fun and practical things. Join us for an interactive session about our land based work and guiding values.
Land Based Cooking Part 1: Shephard's Pie
Online: Limited seats available- Halifax/Dartmouth area only, Indigenous and Black youth/families given preference.
A three part workshop series all about integrating traditional foods into a contemporary diet. This workshop will be led by Reclaiming Our Roots’ extended Anishinaabe fam, Kanina Terry of Lac Seul First Nation. Kanina is an Indigenous Community Based Culinary Arts Instructor working on reclaiming skills and knowledge denied to her as a result of Residential school, colonialism, and assimilation. Please join us in learning common beginner cooking techniques using the nourishing food that the land and animals provide. Ingredients will be provided and delivered by Reclaiming Our Roots.
Land Based Learning: Values and Mindset
Open to the public - Online
Please join us in this Canadian Roots Exchange hosted workshop where we will share a bit of our origin story co-founding and building Reclaiming Our Roots from ground up, including essential principles and values that inform our work and relationships with each other and on the land. This will be an interactive opportunity for participants to learn and share various teachings and stories meant to enhance our relationships and learning on the land. We will share frameworks and activities that can be used to deepen individual relationships with the land as well as ideas that can be shared within families and communities.
Membertou Winter Eeling Excursion
Closed Event, tentative date pending safe ice and weather.
An invitation only 2 Day event co-facilitated and organized by Reclaiming Our Roots’, James Doucette and Membertou community partner, Paul-Bradley Gould taking a group of young men eeling in Antigonish on day 1 and spending day 2 in Membertou processing the eels for community giveaway. Click here for registration form.