Aboriginal Arts and Culture Leadership Grant Funding Recipients, 2021-2022

April 2021 Deadline

Organization Community Project Allocation

First Nations Resiliency in Cultural Reclamation project will pass on t raditional cultural Agency Chiefs Tribal Council protocols to the youth and reclamation of pride in identity will be Inc. achieved. $ 20,000.00

Beauval Minor Sports and Recreation - Northern Village of Elders Land Based Learning project will engage Elders only in hands-on land based Beauval Beauval learning and activities. $ 10,000.00

Community Engagement/Tradition Ecological Knowledge Gathering project will develop our story about the knowledge practices that are part of the ecology of our Big Island Lake Nation Pierceland land and our traditional knowledge. $ 19,500.00

Youth Arts and Wellness project will rekindle in the younger generation Indigenous Bird's Culture Camps Corp. Southend Culture, knowledge, skills, and traditions that have been lost over the years. $ 10,000.00

Central Urban Métis Federation Inc. Métis Cultural Days will focus on the cultural contributions of the Métis Elders. $ 12,500.00

Poundmaker Indigenous Performance Festival-Knowledge Series presents local and international Indigenous artists and knowledge keepers and artists in presentational, Chief Museum Paynton workshop and interactive presentations. $ 25,000.00

Circle of Voices 2021-2022 program introduces and/or re-connects youth to Indigenous Gordon Tootoosis Nikaniwin traditions and storytelling by mentoring students in theatre training, life skills, and Theatre Inc. Saskatoon cultural protocols. $ 10,530.00

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Building a Healthy Family project will help community members learn to traditionally Kahkewistahaw First Nation birth and raise a healthy family including hands on crafts, cultural teaching and skills. Health Center Broadview The program is inclusive of all family and extended family. $ 20,000.00

Saskatchewan Aboriginal Storytelling 2022 project will share, promote and celebrate Library Services for Indigenous history and cultures by offering First Nations and Métis traditional and Aboriginal contemporary oral storytelling events during February 2021, throughout Peoples Inc. La Ronge Saskatchewan. $ 30,000.00

Muskoday Elder & Youth Language and Culture Camp project will bring together the Muskoday Elder's Club and Recreation youth to learn Cree, partake in ceremony, pick Muskoday medicine, and learn crafts. $ 9,000.00

5th(ish) Annual OUT on the Land Camp is an intergenerational cultural camp for Two Spirit, Queer, and Transgender urban and Northern Youth with traditional Indigenous OUTSaskatoon Inc. Saskatoon Knowledge Keepers held in Pine River. $ 8,500.00

Exploring Stories and Nehiyaw Identity project will create two camps to bring in Jerry Saddleback and the Medicine Wheel Model to Natural Horsemanship to instill Nehiyaw Prairie Livelihood Project Inc. Identity and Resilience. $ 12,000.00

Sharing and Gathering Oral Stories of RIIS Descendants project supports the Cultural RIIS Commemorative Researcher/Producer and Engagement Coordinator to gather RIIS descendants stories, Association Inc. Fort Qu'Appelle host symposium, and create a public repository for the stories. $ 25,000.00

Exploring Indigenous Culture through Online Workshops & Small Group Sessions Saskatoon Community Youth project will enhance our organization's and community's cultural competency by Arts Programming Inc. Saskatoon employing Indigenous Art Leaders to deliver culturally rich art workshops. $ 12,500.00

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Starblanket Year End Tipi Camp 2021, hosted in partnership with local provincial schools, will be a year-end celebratory tipi camp to celebrate the success of its students Star Blanket Cree Nation Balcarres currently attending school. $ 10,100.00

Intergenerational Métis Mentorship/Artist Residency 2021 project supports artist Leah Dorion mentoring younger educator Ashley Smith to promote Métis cultural teachings. The Mann Art Gallery Inc. Prince Albert They will create temporary outdoor art installations and lead workshops. $ 16,000.00

The YQFN Andotamok (all of you listen) Project will teach mentors from the YQFN community to gathering medicines and transfer those teachings to their families, Yellow Quill First Nation Yellow Quill children, youth, and community. $ 24,370.00

TOTAL $ 275,000.00

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