Jane Meader shares about teaching children in Membertou about Wampum belts Women of First Light 2022

miigam'agan shares traditional teaching about planting seeds. Women of First Light 2022

Women, Water, and Healing. Author Sherri Mitchel speaks on the role Indigenous women play in healing communities and the water and land.

Glenda Wysote LaBillios speaks about a Wabanaki Confederacy gathering and its significance to her awakening as an indigenous woman.

Mi'kmaq member of Apaji wla'matulinej and Women of First Light speaks on traditional medicinal plants and what they are used for.

Mi'kmaq Water Protector. Marian speaks of her journey to protect the water and the teachings she received from Josephine Mandamin . Water for life. Mostly speaking Mi'kmaw

On what does it mean to be Women led, leading from the heart. How Apaji-wla'Matulinej and Women of First Light works.

Singing our Songs, Apaji wla'matulinej. Maggie Paul shares wonderful stories from her life journey of becoming a singer. Her laugh will lighten your spirit.

Our Reality – Our Hope. Five Mi'kmaq youth speak about what it is like to walk in two worlds, to have been brought about traditional and now interreacting with the wider world. They speak of their dreams, frustrations, concerns and hopes for future generations.

Reflecting on Righting Relations and the need to come together.

Inuit member of Apaji-wla'matulinej and Women of First Light on finding your way back to your culture. As a child of a residential school survivor, their Mom tried to hide them in a white community. This is a story of reconnecting.

Elders medicine video from our senior's project... treaties, herbal medicine and thinking about the future.

When you have been impacted by deep trauma and violence, how do you move on? How do you not get lost in anger and trauma. Natalie Gloade, Jane and Sinead Meader share their journey to forgiveness after having being directly impacted by the murder of a loved ones, their mother, their father and husband. Hosted by Rosalee LaBillois Their journeys were not easy and it was a choice to search for a way to continue living the traditional values and staying connected to Creator

Jane Meader talking about teaching literacy to children from an Indigenous perspective. Teachings children about wampum belts including how to use wampum belt in talking circles. It became a treaty between the children and the school and the teachers.

Sacred place of sharing with women. Sitting with our elders Jane Meader, Marilyn Francis, miigam'agan. Hosted by Catherine Martin. Since covid there has been few opportunities for people to sit with elders, so we provided an opportunity for people to ask elders questions. Topics included how to learn the meaning of your Spirit name, the gifts that your name gives you and connecting to the life essence, Spirit and energy. Learning from the original teachers - the trees, the humming bird; healing and love; visions; meaning of the beaver, white buffalo; Spirit helpers; if you didn't get your rites of passage or walking out ceremony as not raised traditional - can you still or through these?; sharing knowledge across First Nations; stages of life; Women of First Light activities and circles; ceremonies;

Youth are also knowledge keepers. In this session youth shared their wisdom, their hopes and their challenges. It features Ryan Gould form Membertou who started a men's group to help support single dad's and those struggling with addictions. The group has become an amazing place for young men to gather, to learn and support each other. They also support the community by organizing and holding Mother Day's lunches. It features Paulina Meader who has followed the traditional ways her whole live and is involved in many ceremonies. She also works educating health care workers on Indigenous ways of being. Hannah Martin has been engaged in youth activism for years, from telling Prime Minister Trudeau that Mother earth is not a myth to travel to the UN as part of a youth delegation or meeting with Indigenous people in Guatemala. Rosalie LaBillois has been a part of the AFN youth council for years. She is a singing and a strong knowledge keeper. Topics included overcoming addictions, walking in two worlds (Native and non-native), working with young men to respect women, learning to truly forgive in order to move on from trauma and the strength that comes from traditional ways.

Speakers Jane Meader, Ron Thremblay, miigam'agan, Alma Brook, Cathy Martin. Hosted by Paulina Meader. Sharing longhouse teachings, understanding Indigenous worldview - unpacking the language - the meaning of numbers; how to decolonialize ourselves; meaning of mid-winter, winter solstice ceremonies; putting food out on Jan 31rst; how to be an ally; connecting to ancestorial memories and Spirits; learning from nature; wampum belts, (Wabanaki confederacy belt, joint Haudenosaunee & Wabanaki belt as agreements between people and Spirit); feminine and masculine energies; love;

A conversation with Wabanaki Youth Knowledge Keepers Ryan Gould, Rosalie LaBillois, Hannah Martin, and Paulina Meader. Commentary by Gop Bartibogue. With prayers by Jane Meader. Moderated by Ishbel Munro and Paulina Meader.

A conversation with Wabanaki Knowledge Keepers Jane Meader, Wolastoqewi Grand Chief spasaqsit possesom - Ron Tremblay, miigam'agan, Catherine Martin, and Alma Brooks. With prayers by Albert Marshall. Moderated by Ishbel Munro and Paulina Meader. Resources Referenced: The Science of the Sacred - Nicole Redvers, ND Mi'kmaq Creation Story - Woman of the Water https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCVIUYlD3qs The Creation story shared by Stephen Augustine . Mi'gmaq Creation Story © https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQvup95nhvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHRfv2ADqH8 CIOOS Atlantic Speakers Series 2021: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/bringing-together-indigenous-western-ways-of-coastal-ocean-observing-tickets-123052971751 https://cioosatlantic.ca/wp-content/uploads/4-CIOOS-Atlantic-Literature-Review-Presentation-13-minutes_Large-file.mp4 Wapapi akonutomakonol: the Wampum records: Wabanaki traditional laws by Lewis Mitchell

Mi'kmaq and Algonquin Treaty Defenders Voices - We ALL Are Treaty People Webinar was held on October 6th, 2021, setup as a panel discussion with various Mi'kmaq and Algonquin Treaty Defenders. The talk includes lobster fisheries in the east and the work to conserve our relative the moose in Ontario.

Host Rosalie LaBillois opens with the Kitpu (Eagle song) Gkiskedtanamoogk covers the original meaning of treaties between Indigenous Nations and later with settlers. Discussion includes unceeded lands and how we can live together in a good way. Dr. Sherry Pictou talks about the impacts on women, water and land. She points out how Covid stopped the federal government on moving forward on MMIW but did not stop development, which often leads to more murdered and missing Indigenous women. From the Doctrine of Discovery to modern day legislation, it is based on a colonial worldview, a patriarchal system that does not respect life. but "we can change the direction of humanity,"

Jane shares about not being a gate keeper to Ceremonies but welcoming everyone in. Teachings include moontime, skirts and the most important - love.