Akinomaagaye Gaamik: Lodge of Learning
Learning and  Returning to the Good Ways of our Ancestors
Many Anishinaabek communities have a house of learning, or a Roundhouse and is the pride of their community.  A Roundhouse is a space in which the original Anishinaabek lifeways, knowledge and education is delivered in the oral and/or customary traditions passed along by Elders and Knowledge Holders.  Akinomaagaye Gaamik is a grassroots initiative, which formed under the guidance of Elders and Traditional Practitioners in and around the New Credit community to promote education and healing through traditional Indigenous methods, pedagogies and language.
Akinomaagaye Gaamik provides an  appropriate environment and atmosphere for Indigenous Knowledge Carriers to share and teach from.  Our mission is to facilitate, coordinate, partner, promote and fundraise for events and activities that provide local and regional opportunities for learning and engaging in Indigenous ways of doing, being and understanding customary practices and languages.

Meet the Director - Nancy Rowe

Giidaakunadaad (The Spirit Who Lives in High Places) n’dizhinikaaz (is my name): Nancy Rowe is a Mississauga, Ojibwe of the Anishinaabek Nation located at New Credit First Nation, ON. Nancy holds an honors BA in Indigenous Studies and Political Science. She is an educator, consultant and a Traditional Practitioner of Anishinaabek lifeway’s, views and customary practices and is currently completing a Master’s degree of Environmental Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo.  She is an avid volunteer who coordinates Akinomaagaye Gaamik, a grassroots initiative to provide educational opportunities for all peoples interested in Indigenous perspectives of life, health, education, history and the environment.  “Education is the doorway through which we all can create a common ground and understanding of not only Indigenous Peoples but also, and more importantly, our environment.”

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Location:

674 New Credit Road, Hagersville, Ontario N0A 1H0