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What is an Indigenous Medicine Wheel?
The circle, being primary, influences how we as Aboriginal peoples view the world. In the process of how life evolves, how the natural world grows...
Spiritual Beliefs
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What Is the Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples and Animals
From time to time people ask me about the relationship between Indigenous peoples and animals. For some, the knowledge of the natural world - the land
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Indigenous Worldviews vs Western Worldviews
Any individual within a culture is going to have his or her own personal interpretation of the collective cultural code; however, the individual's...
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First Nation Sacred Sites
Photo: Shutterstock For First Nations, their identity, nationhood, and cultural survival are all interconnected to their relationship with the...
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First Nations' Relationship to the Land
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinctive spiritual relationship with their traditionally owned or otherwise...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Sage
This is the last in our series on Indigenous sacred plants. Sage, along with sweetgrass, red cedar and tobacco, is one of the four plants considered...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Tobacco
Tobacco, one of the four (sweetgrass, sage and red cedar being the other three) sacred plants of Indigenous Peoples has a very long history and a...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Red Cedar
Sacred Red Cedar, along with sweetgrass, sage and tobacco, is one of the Indigenous sacred plants used by Indigenous and Métis Peoples (cedar does...
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Indigenous Sacred Plants: Sweetgrass
Sweetgrass is one of the four plants (tobacco, sage, red cedar and sweetgrass) considered sacred to Indigenous, Inuit and Métis Peoples. It is known...
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Spirit Bear or Kermode Bear? That is the question.
In my travels to deliver an on site training workshop earlier this week I was blessed to see a Spirit Bear or Kermode Bear up close and personal and...