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| "The Creator has given us the responsibility to protect the lands on which we were placed. We are to take care of and nurture everything that the Creator has given as a trust and duty to future generations of Pikangikum people.” - From Pikangikum People Sustaining Our Livelihood on the Land" |
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Our Strengths:
Language
We cherish our language - our community has a 100 % retention rate of Ojibway language. Most of our children come to kindergarten as unilingual Ojibway speakers. This has meant that our youngest members still learn easily from our Esteemed Elders.
We see the threats to our language and are determined to protect it. Ojibway language is used as a language of instruction in our secondary and elementary school in classrooms where Pikangikum members are the teachers. We are training our own community members as teachers to enable continued instruction in Ojibway.
 As well, we are planning for an Indigenous Knowledge Teaching Centre within the Whitefeather Forest where our children and others, including First Nations and non-aboriginal students from other communities, will be able to learn about our land directly from our Elders. All of this will be rooted in our Ojibway language.
Ojibway is the language of work in Pikangikum. To continue in this tradition, all of the community knowledge guiding the Whitefeather Forest Initiative is being documented in the Ojibway language.
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