Land-based Learning Activities
Land-based learning activities take place once a month with a teacher who focuses on wellness and skill-building activities. Students can improve their knowledge and practice of shelter-building, fire-making, plant identification, meditation, and coal burning.
Traditional Skills
Traditional skills like moose-hide tanning, beading, and basket-making workshops are available on Champlain and Bishop’s University campus each year.
Indigenous Language Activities
Kchi al8msakw means the “big room” in Abenaki and establishes a space for the promotion of Indigenous languages and cultures at Champlain-Lennoxville and Bishop’s University.
The project engages with Indigenous and non-Indigenous students by providing a forum in which Indigenous languages and voices are heard, explored, and promoted (this is supported by PRESE Estrie Higher Education). The project hosts extra-curricular learning activities, presentations, discussions, and exchanges on Indigenous languages and cultures, paying particular attention to the Abenaki language. It also draws on Indigenous knowledge and experience by inviting guest speakers to present on these topics.