About
Program Summary
The Anishinaabe Canoe Migration project is a collaboration with a Native women-led nonprofit, Heart Berry House, that reconnects Ojibwe women, girls, and nonbinary community members to water ceremonies, songs, and land and water-based healing through our cultural roots as Anishinaabeg.
Program Background
In 2026, we launched an Anishinaabe Canoe Migration Internship with female and nonbinary youth to encourage confident connections to everyday cultural practices and ceremony, expand multigenerational networks, develop resilient paddling and land skills, and build leadership and trip-management skills. The Canoe Migration team builds on a dream to revisit our historical migration routes over the Great Lakes and (re)learn the spiritual stopping points and places of deep cultural significance to our community and our ancestors. Follow the Canoe team’s adventures and activities on social media.
Funding
The Canoe Migration Team is grateful for support from Comic Relief and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community.
PI Contact
For more information, please contact Dr. Melissa Walls, mwalls3@jhu.edu.
