Grandmother's Voice

Collective Community Healing with Dennis Windego 4 days of LIVE streaming Monday to Thursday 7 pm-8:30 pm Grandmothers Voice in Collaboration with Community Partners across Southern Ontario, offer this time with ... Internationally Acclaimed Indigenous Psychotherapist Dennis Windego The Grandmothers say it is time to prepare for the new world as we hope to emerge from the pandemic. Dennis will provide tools to support the people's journey as we collectively move through these times of change to rise up together. *The content may be triggering to some, Grandmothers Voice will provide support phone numbers for those who may require additional support"*. Please share with those you care for and like our FB page and Subscribe to the GV Youtube channel to be notified of our LIVE broadcasts Nia wen to our Community Relatives Anishnabeg Outreach Halton Regional Police Service Halton Catholic District School Board St. Clair Catholic District School Board Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board Niagara Catholic District School Board Windsor-Essex Catholic District School Board Waterloo Catholic District School Board De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre Ska:na Family Learning Centre - Chatham-Kent

Join Tehahenteh today at 12 noon as her begins is 4 visits with us. He will be joining us every other Friday May 7th , May 21st, June 4th and June 18th to share his understandings. Today Tehahenteh will talk about The Opening Address... He says "This presentation is central to all understanding of who we are as Human Beings and is the key to opening our consciousness to all forms". We hope you will visit with our Uncle Frank today. Tehahenteh (Franklin Miller) is Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk) Turtle Clan from Six Nations of the Grand River territory. His first career was in art and advertising and proprietor of an advertising studio in Toronto, before getting involved with Mohawk Language. In 1992 he went back to university to get his Native Language Diploma for teaching and later his Ontario Teaching certificate. He has taught Mohawk Language in public school, high school and at Brock, McMaster and Grand River Polytechnic University. He has been involved with Adult Immersion at Six Nations since its inception in 1999, developing curriculum, teaching in class, Master Apprentice, and advanced level Iroquoian philosophy. Presently he is teaching, Mohawk grammar at Grand River Polytechnic, and performing duties as a Knowledge Holder at Hamilton Wentworth, Dufferin Peel, Niagara Region District School Board and Aboriginal Legal Services in Brantford . In his spare time, he lectures at universities, conferences, and other public events. He has translated several books to Mohawk, and many stories including transcribing old texts on Creation and Kayaneren’kó:wa commonly known as ‘The Great Law. Along with that he records and films events of cultural value, translating them and doing voice overs in Mohawk, for those who are studying the language. Some of these efforts may be viewed on you-tube.

Join Indigenous Artist Moses Lunham Monday April 12th 6 pm-8 pm Get your Canvas, Paint, and Brushes together with family and paint with Moses from his home in Kettle Point First Nations. "Geese Returning to Nest" is what we will all paint together.... For all upcoming paint nights until June and your list of supplies needed at the link below. Visit https://www.hcdsb.org//family-paint-nights-learn-about-in/

"It's a great sorrowful thing to talk about in my family". The late George Blondin talking about the uranium mining near Deline in the Northwest Territories. h...ttps://www.youtube.com/watch A VILLAGE OF WIDOWS The community of Deline, N.W.T. has a Dene population of 800 people. We are located right on the shore of Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) about 300 miles north of Yellowknife NT. We are the only tribe and the only human community on this lake. Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) is the ninth largest in the world and the fifth largest in Canada. Great Bear Lake is probably the last fresh water lakes in the world. The area on the north shore of Sahtu (Great Bear Lake) has been the site of radium mining from 1934 to 1939, then a uranium mine from 1943 to 1962 and as a silver mine from 1962 to 1982. The Dene of Deline, mostly men worked as labourers and as coolies carrying gunny sacks of radioactive uranium ore and concentrates on the transportation route. Tons of tailings both radium and uranium mine were dumped directly into the lake and used as landfill. In 1975 young men from Deline were sent to work in the tunnels on a Government training program without masks for radon gas exposure. In 1997 ten young men were sent with two hours of training to clean up "hot spots" of radioactive soil in Sawmill Bay without shower facilities. There was no other industrial presence before this Port Radium mine or any other since their closure to date. Port Radium was owned and operated by a crown corporation of Government of Canada. Uranium ore and concentrates were extracted, milled and sold to the US Government for the Manhattan project. The US Government tested the explosions in Navada near another First Nations reservation. They built the atomic bomb which they dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All without informing the Dene and all without the consent of the Dene of Deline, the First Nations whose land, resources and people were used. Because of the subsistence livelihood which continues to date, our people the Dene travel extensively on seasonal and rotational basis around the lake; following their main food source, the caribou and the fish. Not just the men but families were generally exposed to the various waste landfills and lake dumps over the years. They were not warned about the hazardous nature of these ores and tailings, and took no precaution with respect to working with this toxic substance, their drinking water or their traditional foods. It is only recently that the Dene of Deline were informed of these exposures. They have been advised of "hot spots" of radioactivity in the Sawmill Bay area, one of the areas for which they traded other territory in their land claims agreement because of its subsistence priority use. Bennet fields, spiritual gathering grounds was also confirmed by the Government of Canada as contaminated. The Dene of Deline are now living in fear of their land, water, animals and worried for their own health and survival. Deline is practically a village of widows, most of the men who worked as labourers have died of some form of cancer. The widows, who are traditional women were left to raise their families with no breadwinners, supporters. They were left to depend on welfare and other young men for their traditional food source. This village of young men, are the first generation of men in the history of Dene on this lake, to grow up without guidance from their grandfathers, fathers and uncles. This cultural, economic, spiritual, emotional deprivation impact on the community is a threat to the survival of the one and only tribe on Great Bear Lake.

Jeffrey red George and Canadian art Prints in wind Devon Art group incorporated printed in Canada.Out of British Columbia. I am pleased to announce that I have ...signed a contract with Canadian or prints as part of their indigenous collection. This photograph here is a calendar images of my art work. This printing company will also be printing my work on many other t Products as well. I would Like to thank owner and operator of Gallery Indigena of Stratford Erla and As well as Bob Kennedy My adopted father figure and his family from Grand bend. And Maxine Noel who is a great Artist and inspiration to me . All of these people help me along the journey to help me succeed at achieving one of my greatest dreams Being a part of Canadian art prints. This a very big deal for Red Dog it's like getting a record deal I'm very excited I am very proud and I think my higher power the great spirit and all my friends and family for their support. Dreams do come true and it really does pay to live sober happy life At one time in my life I thought about committing suicide The only thing that stopped me was I believed in my artwork that someday it would take me somewhere that it would take me out of the hell hole that I was living in and take me to a paradise beyond and above Anything that I could have ever imagined.An old elder once told me stick around kid long enough for the miracle to happen I look at myself today and I am that miracle. I Once lived with little hope within myself it was very dim an bleak and dark. I had a create opportunities.And I had to believe in myself and I had to want it bad enough And i am very thankful that I did not give up. Dreams are worth fighting for and I am a Warrior. And I am a strong believer in my native culture Ab With out my native culture I don't think I would be here on this earth either. I LOVE MY LIFE TO Day. See more

Everyday, is a new beginning. Grandmother's Voice, everyday, journies towards the next new beginning. The people continue to arrive.... They gather to grow and share and support one another. We have no idea where it will lead us, but we know who we are and what we need to do. The people need our voices to rise and our circles to become wider for opportunities to continue to grow. Love, Reciprocity, Legacy, Culture, Sovreignty, Community. All of the understandings to healthy relationships. Join our community. As we continue to make change for the better.

This Saturday! Bring your drum! Native Drumming 4-5!

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Whenever I hear the Grandmothers refer to themselves as the "Creators Helper", there is this rush of love that vibrates through my body. I thought I felt that ...because I am witness to the pure love and healing they bring to the people every day. Their dedication to serve and exemplify what it means to be love, peace, and righteousness is sooo powerful and beautiful. Straight up, if you asked me 30 years ago if I could relate to what I am sharing now, I would say, it resonates and if I could be what they are, show me how to be. I have always felt like I was about to burst with love and hanging with these women every day, gives me that space to be love. However, in saying all this, I have work to do with these Grandmothers. I too am coming to understand I am the "Creators Helper", it was my instructions too. Being a helper is not always easy, although it comes easy to me when I am serving these women and others. Being a helper at this time in my life means for me to be in the front line, to support and protect these women who are sacred. Importantly right now, to know my purpose and to understand my gifts and strengths for the rise of our women is my truth. 2 Days ago I was feeling tired and a bit defeated and then I received this message from Grandmother Renee after I shared how I was feeling... "Good morning dear. Yes, we all have to stand for truth. Yes, it can be overwhelming & exhausting. Many of us had to do it in our own community. We have ur back. We may not b there physically but spiritually we r as we do our work. It’s our trust in the Creator that we are able to. Know you also have the backing of the ancestors. You have power which they want to break. Remember inside them is their truth that has been squashed. You have your tools & that is Creator’s law." Hey!!!!!??? Now you know why I do what I do and how I can stand in my truth and power every day. As we continue to move forward and focus on the purpose of creating Grandmother's Voice Community and Organization, we continue to be challenged. The people creating the challenges are there to make us stronger and they are to remind us to stay on track. To create the change we have to be truthful to ourselves. Peace, Power, Sovereignty, Culture, Knowledge, Legacy, Love, Reciprocity, Coming Faces, 7th Generation, Truth..... "Be the change you want to be in the world". Mahatma Ghandi

Congratulations Suzanne Jackson !!

If you loved Maurice Switzer on Monday, join him tomorrow as he facilitates and Honours Indigenous Hero's. Check this event out tomorrow afternoon.

Poet, Author, Motivational Speaker and Fashion Designer to name a few of her gifts. A true Creator's helper in spreading love and medicine.

Meet Tala Tootoosis tomorrow on Grandmothers Voice Live Real Talk at 1 pm! 12 noon Central Poet, Author, Motivational Speaker and Fashion Designer to name a few of her gifts!!! The medicine in the design of her skirts is the power she shares with the women who receive them. ... She is witty, gracious and an inspiration to follow. **Today she is doing a raffle, check her page out and get in on it**

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