Aki Kikinomakaywin 'learning on the land' camp in Thunder Bay gets Indigenous youth excited about science
Jul 22, 2023 06:37AM ● By Content Editor
Photo: Dillon Koopmans, the senior manager of education at Water First Education & Training Inc., teaches young people at Aki Kikinomakaywin how to perform a stream assessment of the river connecting to Lake Tamblyn at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont. (Marc Doucette/CBC)
By Taylor O'Brien - CBC News - July 22, 2023
By Taylor O'Brien - CBC News - July 22, 2023
Indigenous youth gathered this week at Lakehead University and Confederation College in Thunder Bay, Ont., in a special camp centred on Aki Kikinomakaywin — Ojibway for "learning on the land."
Seventeen young people aged 12 to 16 came from First Nations across northern Ontario to participate in the second year of the program that began July 16. The activities included conducting stream assessments through Indigenous ways of knowing, combined with Western science.
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