Please join us over on our Facebook page Thursday, October 7th, 2021, 10 AM CST to celebrate the virtual book launch of Wahbanang — The Resurgence of a People: Clearing the Path for our Survival. Included in the launch is a video presentation created by the Turtle Lodge International Centre of Indigenous Education and Wellness.
Wahbanang is authored by a respected group of Knowledge Keepers, Elders and Chiefs — Knowledge Keepers from the Anishinaabe, Dakota and Ininiwak Nations gathered numerous times at the Turtle Lodge in ceremony, and prepared this collective unified message for the people. The root word of “Wahbung” is “Wahbanang” – the east, where the sun rises. It refers to “Going Back to the beginning” in Anishinaabemowin.
In 1971, Manitoba’s First Nation leaders released WAHBUNG: Our Tomorrows (1971), published by the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs) as their position paper in response to Trudeau’s White Paper. It continues to be an agenda for action that included First Nations’ inherent right to have full authority over their health, education, and child and family services systems, informed by First Nations worldviews, laws, and approaches. In 2018, Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (AMC) Grand Chief Dumas passed tobacco to Elders and Knowledge Keepers at the Turtle Lodge to develop a position document for today.
View the book launch here: https://www.facebook.com/mfnerc/videos/448287129943236
Please join us in this presentation. Wahbanang is available for presale. https://mfnerc.org/product/wahbanang/ You may also purchase the shorter summary of Wahbanung at this link. http://www.turtlelodge.org/wahbanung/
