Hendricks County, Indiana will once again host one of the nation’s biggest events promoting awareness and education of the American Indian culture.
Captain William Christopher founded Baker Lake in the Canadian province of Nunavut in 1762, when he traveled from Chesterfield Inlet to the Baker Lake area. William named it after a Hudson’s Bay company governor, Sir William Baker.
Have you ever heard of Indigenous Sweats? The real Canadian history and traditions of them? Today I will be talking about the importance and wonderful experience of Indigenous Sweats. Let me give you a brief history of Indigenous people and Canadian history, so you can have a little understanding of why it is so important.
There is a huge loss of language within Ojibwe culture from when the elders were much younger (such as 40 years ago) to our generation now. It was one of the many losses within our culture that has been the hardest to try and bring back.
New Pendulum on the Pow Wow Grounds
There are seven sacred teachings in the indigenous culture that relate to common morals, but it is connected to the medicine wheel: a four-direction circle that consists of four colours, black, white, yellow, and red. The medicine wheel is separated into these four directions, and each direction represents the spiritual, emotional, physical, and intellectual ways of life.