Indigenous Bow Valley
Community Grants / Community Organizations / Indigenous Bow Valley Tom Simeon is now properly identified in this photo. [Tom Simeon, Stoney Nakoda], Peter and Catharine Whyte fonds (V683/III/B/NS-371-2), Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies There are projects that, by nature, expect to see their process change with time. Throw a…
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Language is the foundation of culture. At the Îyârhe (Stoney) Nakoda First Nation, the urgency of protecting and promoting language is becoming clear.
Îyârhe Nakoda Elder Terry Rider is a community leader who is involved in many aspects of life. A fluent Stoney speaker, Rider hosts a morning radio show on Siktoge ja Radio (CFIR FM 88.5) and a podcast that are both spoken entirely in Stoney.
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Mînî Hrpa, the Indigenous Cultural Centre Popup that is a program of BCF, is back on Saturday, October 28. This will be the third popup this year.
Bow Valley residents and visitors from near and far can participate in this unique Stoney Nakoda cultural learning and sharing experience. The goal is to help build capacity for grassroots Indigenous community leaders to organize around the Mînî Hrpa vision and create opportunities for visitors and residents to experience Indigenous culture in authentic, community-led ways.
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Moving Mountains is moving towards the end. As we prepare to present a final report on the Initiative, we caught up with Katrina Donald, Moving Mountains’ Developmental Evaluator, to understand what we’ve learned and how we can all continue to learn.
As the principal consultant at ever-so-curious, Katrina Donald believes that listening and sensemaking practices bring us into community, reveal pathways forward, encourage and embolden us, and allow for greater impact. Her approach is relational and developmental; she works in partnership with people and organizations to co-design inclusive, collaborative and relevant evaluation strategies and organizational design.
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