Anishinaabe Star Teachings with Bwaananaabekwe and Ogimaawab

Описание: Star Teachings with Bwaananaabekwe and Ogimaawab

On Sunday April 25, 2021 from 1-3pm, in alignment with the Sucker Fish Moon, Bwaananaabekwe and Ogimaawab shared a seminar on Anishinaabe star teachings. This is a seminar that you may have to watch several times to fully appreciate.

Speakers Bios
Bwaananaabekwe (Mary Moose) is Mermaid clan and is a unique Anishinaabe Elder, born in the remote regions of Northern Ontario, Canada. She is also known as Gaa-giizhiikwajiwed Bwaananaabekwe, The Mermaid Who Swims Fast, or just Bwaananaabekwe.

Bwaananaabekwe was raised by her grandparents in the deep bush of Northern Canada. Her early life was similar to that of our ancestors who lived before contact with Europeans. Mary heard many stories as a child, bundled in bed in the family wigwam. She listened to her relatives fill the long winter nights with ancestral teachings that connect every living thing and how these stories are written in the stars. At a very young age, she used her star knowledge to navigate cross-country back to her home, after escaping horrific abuse in a government boarding school.

Mary holds a wealth of knowledge, skills, and abilities. She devotes her life to helping Anishinaabeg in Canada and the United States revitalize language, and pass on knowledge that has been suppressed over hundreds of years (and counting) of forced assimilation.

Ogimaawab (Joseph Sutherland) is from the Fort Albany, Ontario reservation and currently resides in Duluth, Minnesota. Since 2000, Ogimaawab has worked on numerous jobs that involve the revitalization of Anishinaabe culture. He has worked with several organizations in Indian country that involve Anishinaabe language and cultural knowledge. Currently Ogimaawab teaches culture and language at a Native American treatment centre in Sawyer, Minnesota. He has worked on projects that share environmental knowledge that connect to the stars and shares teaching of the Anishinaabeg doodem (clan) system, and connection with constellations.

This event is brought to you through a partnership with Anishinaabe Studies at Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (SKG), Anishinaabe Initiatives (AI), and Shingwauk Anishinaabe Students Association (SASA)at Algoma University, through generous funding from the Laidlaw Grant.

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