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OCSB Indigenous Ed offers financial support for experiential learning initiatives. Plan Ahead by aligning experiences to specific Indigenous curriculum expectations and embedding deep learning competencies.

Before booking, ensure your have SIED fund approval from your school admin and Indigenous Coordinator Alanna Trines. Funds should be used to benefit school community/partnerships.

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Restorying the Land

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Akikpautik/ Chaudière Falls

"For Indigenous people our water and landscapes are very much storied as this is one way that we preserve important sacred beliefs, teachings, and knowledge for future generations to come."

Dr. Lynn Gehl (Anishinabe, Algonquin)

“I really want people to make a connection to the significance and beauty of the Chaudiére Falls to the Algonquins,” said Bourgeois. “It’s a message; it tells a bigger story of whose territory they are on.” Before the photo shoot a sacred tobacco ceremony was performed. Giving semma is a way of praying and giving thanks. “It’s ceremony that hasn’t happened in a long time at that spot,” Bourgeois said. “We walked down to a rock, feeling the mist from the falls, and I held Paul’s hand. We put tobacco in the water together to give thanks for that day.”

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Pimisi Station

Pīndigen Park

OCSB Lesson Plan

Métis Nation Moose Poster

Identifying-Animal-Prints-3-2.pdf

Garden of Relatives Coloring book PDF.pdf

Reconciling History Walking Tours

FN Caring Society Resources

Downtown Ottawa Tour

Beechwood Cemetery Tour

Chief Pinesi's Portage

This trail is named after Pierre Louis Constant Pinesi , an important Algonquin leader who lived from 1768 to 1834. He hunted in this area, where the Ottawa, Gatineau, and Rideau Rivers meet. He was known for being a great speaker and a strong leader. He led about 264 families and fought with his sons in the War of 1812 to help protect Canada.

Chief Pinesi asked the King many times to make a treaty to protect his people’s land, but later, his community had to move to Algonquin Park. In 1830, he was named Grand Chief. Sadly, he and his wife died of cholera in 1834.

This trail, called a portage, is very old—maybe 8,000 years! People used it to carry canoes and trade things like tools and other items with people far away, even from Labrador and the Gulf of Mexico. Scientists have found old objects near the trail that are up to 7,000 years old via archaeological research. Some of the plants the Algonquin people used for food, medicine, and building still grow near the trail today.

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