Current Projects

Miyopimâtisowin can be described as "the good life" according to Cree and Dane-zaa views. This includes honouring our seasonal rounds, having a diet based on our traditional foods, continuing our cultural practices, living with the land, and contributing to community in a good way.

The KCS Miyopimâtisowin project will provide opportunities for the greater Indigenous community within our Treaty 8 territory to participate in activities associated with our ancestral lifeways.

Prioritized activities identified by the board of directors include:

• birch tree tapping

• trapping

• net fishing

• traditional hunting techniques

• tipi teachings

• traditional food preservation techniques

• sewing and beadwork

• plant medicines

The KCS Miyopimâtisowin project will partner with Amisk Farm, located on Saulteau First Nations land to provide a learning and teaching space, host workshops, and provide additional programming around growing Indigenous staple crops and seed saving.

The mistikokamik (wood lodge) was once the traditional home of the Mountain Dane Zaa (ancestors of families from Saulteau, West Moberly and Halfway River First Nations). This project will revitalize and preserve the almost lost knowledge, art forms and incorporate two BC First Nation languages related to these lodges.

These traditional shelters have not existed for generations and key community Elders are now gone. Younger generations have never seen these lodges before.

This is a rare opportunity to research the construction methods, materials and etiquette of living in these ancient lodges before this knowledge is lost forever.

The name of this project is pÎkÎwiy (a call to return home) and the purpose is to reclaim our rightful place as stewards of our territory and to learn about the ethics, responsibilities, cycles and intimate connection to land, recognizing it as a place of healing, rejuvenation and well-being.

A series of land-based cultural workshops and interviews with local elders will aim to provide key information such as traditional Dane-Zaa wood shelters, hunting ethics, local history, songs and geography.