Fall 2025

4. – Contemporary land claim agreements, like the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement.
9. – Agreements made between Indigenous Nations and the Crown.
11. – One of the elements honoured in reconciliation.
12. – Movement to return land to Indigenous stewardship.
14. – A space of teaching, dialogue, and ceremony.
17. – Legal recognition of Indigenous land rights.
19. – Respected teacher and guide in Indigenous communities.
21. – Lands never surrendered by treaty or agreement.
23. – Inherent right of Indigenous Nations to self-govern.
24. – Anishinabemowin for Wild Rice
25. – Those we honour in this work.

1. – Life-giving element central to Indigenous teachings.
2. – Ongoing processes around land claims.
3. – Often claims authority over land that is in fact unceded.
5. – Teaching framework often shared by Liz Akiwenzie.
6. – Language of the Anishinaabe.
7. – A practice to recognize traditional territories.
8. – Paired with reconciliation.
10. – Anishinaabemowin word for respect (Seven Grandfather Teachings).
13. – Historic treaties signed between 1871 and 1921 across much of Canada.
15. – System that dispossessed Indigenous Peoples of their lands.
16. – Cree word for respect.
18. – Central teaching guiding reconciliation.
20. – Law and governance that remain with Indigenous Nations on unceded lands.
22. – Generations for whom we carry responsibility.