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Omushkego Ayihtiwin ᐅᒧᓑᑫᑯ ᐊᔨᐦᑎᐧᐃᐣ

Traditional Wellness and Cultural Support Program

Omushkego Ayihtiwin ᐅᒧᓑᑫᑯ ᐊᔨᐦᑎᐧᐃᐣ, the Traditional Wellness and Cultural Support Program, is dedicated to promoting and educating about healthy lifestyles through cultural and traditional practices.

 

Indigenous traditional wellness encompasses various aspects of health, including physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being, of which are interconnected. Neglecting any of these four can lead to imbalance and physical illness.

 

Our Traditional Practitioners are equipped with the knowledge and experience to utilize traditional medicines and ceremonies, helping individuals improve their overall health and support Indigenous communities in healing from the intergenerational impacts of colonization.

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​We offer:

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  • Supportive Traditional Practitioners and Counsellors who provide traditional healing, counselling, cultural events, and spiritual services to the Indigenous peoples within the Mushkegowuk region

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  • Promotion of culture, traditional methodology, health, and spiritual maintenance for a healthier lifestyle and to prevent illnesses

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  • Advocacy on behalf of Mushkegowuk community members regarding equitable access to traditional healing, cultural, and health services 

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  • Traditional ceremonies, teachings and medicines

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Services can be accessed by contacting the Mental Health and Wellness Manager, Lisa Wesley at 705-269-6662 or LisaWesley@mushkegowuk.ca

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what programming do
WE OFFER?

Beads Belt

  • Teachings on traditional medicines 

  • Medicine Wheel Teachings 

  • Access to Healers who offer ceremonies 

  • Referrals to Traditional Counsellors 

  • Full moon ceremonies

  • Talking/sharing circles

  • Women hand drum circles and teachings

  • Hand drum making 

  • Rites of passage ceremonies (placenta, welcome, walking out, snow shoe, first harvest, berry fast)

  • Fasting ceremonies and teachings

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  • Ceremony protocol teachings

  • Fasting ceremonies and teachings

  • Ceremony protocol teachings

  • Cedar baths

  • Pipe ceremonies

  • Sunrise ceremonies

  • Funerals (moccasin and pipe ceremony)

  • Rattle making and teachings

  • Sweat lodge ceremonies

  • Eagle whistle making and teachings

  • Traditional belt making

  • Sewing socials

  • Ribbon skirt and shirt making

Native Drums

  • Buffalo headdress making and teachings

  • Cradle board making

  • Life skills and knowledge teachings

  • Mukluk wrap-around making

  • Traditional jacket making

  • Moss bag making

  • Beading circles

  • Traditional vest making

  • Traditional gun case making

  • Traditional mitt making and teachings

  • Grandfather teachings

  • Sacred bundle teachings

  • Crisis Response

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