Ka Ni Kanichihk
455 McDermot Ave R3A 0B5 Winnipeg, MB, Canada

Join us on June 21, 2021 at our 20th anniversary Keeping the Fires Burning virtual celebration! Tickets are available now at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021 Everyone welcome, "see" you all there!

Today at 2:45 we are giving out hygiene kits! one per person. 455 McDermot Avenue.

Please join us this upcoming Friday at 2:15PM and share widely! Stay safe relatives!

Keeping the Fires Burning on June 21st will honour Florence McLean. The people of Lake Manitoba First Nation form a proud, strong, and resilient community. One person who embodies those qualities is Florence Mclean, the Southern Chiefs’ Organization nominee for the Keeping the Fires Burning honour. See you at our virtual celebration, tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021

Good afternoon Come! Come pick up a lunch at Ka Ni Kanichihk. 455 McDermot. Happening now.

Don't forget June 21st! Everyone welcome at the 20th anniversary Keeping the Fires Burning virtual celebration. Tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021

Keeping the Fires Burning on June 21st will celebrate Elder Florence Paynter whose name was put forward by the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Elder Florence has received the Aboriginal Circle of Teachers’ Award. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of Manitoba, and has been bestowed upon her 4th degree from the Midewin lodge; and utilizes these sacred teachings as a foundation in the work she does. See you at our virtual celebration! Tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021.

Keeping the Fires Burning on June 21st will celebrate Louise Lafreniere-Chippeway who has contributed to the spirit of Keeping the Fires Burning as well as preserving, protecting, promoting Indigeneity in becoming a Social Justice activist advocating on issues such as employment, housing, racism, education, and peace all her life. She’s worked with Indigenous people in Guyana and travelled to Moscow at the height of cold war to attend a World Conference for Women on peace, equity and development. Tickets for #KFB2021 virtual celebration are available at: keepingthefiresburning.ca

UPDATE 3pm: We are out of fish. Thank you all for stopping by! Good Wednesday afternoon relatives! Some community members from Peguis stopped by to donate fish (pickerel) to community members. Please stop by Ka Ni Kanichihk at 455 McDermot to pick up a box. They are only on-site for a limited time, and boxes are frozen, so please ensure to stop by soon! Post will be updated when fish is no longer available.

Celebrate the honourees at Keeping the Fires Burning 2021! Dennis Daniels from Peguis First Nation, has worked in various capacities, but his most significant contribution has been through his work at The Manitoba Indigenous Cultural Education Centre. In 2010 the Cultural Centre underwent a substantial renovation allowing the building to become one of the most remarkable cultural spaces in Winnipeg complete with a community kitchen, full library space with work stations, c...ultural meeting spaces and offices. Everyone is welcome to join us virtually on June 21st! Tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #kfb2021

Meet your Keeping the Fires Burning 2021 Co-host! Nikki Komaksiutiksak is an Inuit woman from Chesterfield Inlet, Nunavut. She is now a mother of five and is the Executive Director for Winnipeg’s first Inuit Resource Centre Tunngasugit Inc. Though Winnipeg is now her home, Nikki has found the strength to preserve her Inukness living in the southern part of Canada. Nikki is an active member with the Inuit community in Winnipeg, and uses her knowledge and understanding of the south to assist other Inuit moving to the big city. See you virtually on June 21. Tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021

Meet your Keeping the Fires Burning 2021 Co-host! - Born and raised in northern Manitoba, Vanessa Tait (Vee) is proud of her roots as a Two-spirited Cree woman from O-pipon-na-piwin Cree Nation South Indian Lake, Manitoba. Vanessa has her Masters in Development Practice: Indigenous Development degree from the University of Winnipeg and currently works for the First Nations Health and Social Secretariat of Manitoba (FNHSSM) in the role of Research Ethics Coordinator. Join us at #KFB2021, tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca

Meet the Keeping the Fires Burning honoured guests. Martha Peet (Tookanacheak) will perform the lighting of the Qulliq. Martha Peet only had one name while growing up, Tookanacheak was her only name. Back then, there were no family names, just one name is given to a child at birth. Most often, it is a name of one of the grandparents of the child or an admired hunter or after an admired seamstress and a food preparer. See you virtually, at Keeping the Fires Burning. Tickets available at keepingthefiresburning.ca #KFB2021

Velma’s House will be Open Easter Monday from 1:00pm - 7:00pm We will be having Easter Dinner @ 5:00pm and handing out Easter treats to all our visitors. All other services available as well. ... Have a safe weekend!

Keeping the Fires Burning and Ka Ni Kanichihk are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Petey Parisian and express our heartfelt condolences to the Parisian & Hotomani families. He will be missed and remembered for all of the gifts he shared with so many. We will remember his kind and generous spirit, his humility and his unwavering love for ceremony and community. For our Keeping the Fires Burning community Petey rendered the most beautiful honour song - that song came... right from the heart and touched the spirit. His voice literally made the hair on the back of your head stand up, send shivers down your spine, bring the tears to your eyes - it left you breathless. Now he sings in paradise. We will honour Petey’s life during our 20th Anniversary Keeping the Fires Burning event on June 21, 2021.