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A Place To Heal:

Bawaajigewin is an Ojibway word that means the action of taking something that is a dream and making it into something you can see in real life.

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OUR VALUES

Our values are represented by the Sweetgrass braid. Through the Sweetgrass teachings, we value a positive sense of belonging for urban Aboriginal peoples through the creation of responsive, Aboriginal community-driven services.

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VISION & MISSION

A Place To Heal:
Building a Community that Embraces our Teachings with a Vision of Today’s Needs.

 

 
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OUR GOALS

To build a strong sense of community, awareness and cultural pride by empowering Aboriginal voices, supporting family and community development, and celebrating the diversity of our knowledge, perspectives and teachings.

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Durham Indigenous History Month

A digital collaboration between Bawaajigewin Aboriginal Community Circle, Ajax Public Library, Carea Community Health Centre, the City of Oshawa, Oshawa Public Library, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, and the Town of Whitby, celebrating National Indigenous History Month Visit website here.

Bawaajigewin Innovation and Creation Champion

Bawaajigewin is honoured to have been the successful organization to earn The Innovation and Creation Award. Thank you to the Arts, Culture and Heritage Awards Programs City of Oshawa.

A Statement on Behalf of Bawaajigewin Aboriginal Community Circle Regarding the News from Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation

The recent confirmation of children’s remains on the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School has been as a stark reminder of the terrible pain inflicted upon Indigenous peoples by the Canadian government and the Catholic, Anglican, United, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches during the settlement of Canada. This pain is not history- for Onkwehón:we across the country this announcement has brought to the surface distressing personal and/or intergenerational memories and has forced people to confront and consider trauma on terms other than their own.

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The image is an expression of one’s historic self, from liberation to recognition of one’s past and their cultural teachings that brought them closer and fuelled them to understand themselves more, to the paths and flame that is our spiritual growth into our own actualization.

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