Land Based Facilitators/ Wilderness Skills

One of the core aims of the Journeys program is to offer Indigenous students a pedagogical environment that celebrates Indigenous ways of learning, living, and being. Land-based learning brings students into contact with the land and with culturally specific skills like tanning deer hides or making fish skin leather. With this grant, we can take students away for a weekend of community building and land-based learning. They will get to connect with local Land Based Facilitators and knowledge keepers. By deepening their connections with other in the Journeys program and by connecting them with knowledge keepers in the broader community, we are building networks of resilience for the students, networks they could rely upon well beyond the confines of learning at Dawson.