Land-Based Learning

Click here to hear how our students feel about learning on and from the land

Audio: Taylor Boschetti, Intermediate First Nation, Metis and Inuit Graduation Coach with Beaver Brae students Skyleth and Kaleigh

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Click here to hear from a Sioux North High School student on what the new teepee at the school represents for them

Audio: Sioux North High School student

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Click here to hear how the new teepee at Beaver Brae Secondary and Intermediate School in Kenora is expanding learning opportunities for all

Audio: Duncan McEwen, Experiential Learning Teacher, Beaver Brae Intermediate School

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Click here to hear about incredible fall harvest experiences our students are able to participate in

Audio: Taylor Boschetti, Intermediate First Nation, Metis and Inuit Graduation Coach and Elder Terry Skead

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Click here to hear how the teepees at Beaver Brae and Sioux North have instilled pride in the school communities

Audio: Marilyn Sewell, Indigenous Community & Cultural Liaison

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4 students stand atop a quinzee.
5 students pose with their Paddle for Credit certificates.
5 students stand together at a fire outdoors.
A student examines his small net near a creek.
A student learns how to clean a hide on a frame.
A student practices fire starting outdoors.
Class poses in front of a winter campfire.
Close up of the finishing assembly of a teepee
Close up of wild rice in a pot.
Cloth being wrapped around a teepee frame.
Crew sets up a teepee to be erected.
Demonstration of a hide being cleaned at Fall Harvest.
Dog sled teams run down a trail onto the ice.
Elder and students sit around a fire inside a teepee.
Fish are removed from a net at Fall Harvest.
Five canoes on the water.
Five students sit under a tarp fort outdoors.
Four students assemble hide drums outdoors.
Group erects the 3 key poles of a teepee.
Group of students roasting hot dogs on a winter fire.
High school students in canoes pose for the camera.
Juniper tea is served in a teepee.
Setting up a large tarp roof at an outdoor ampitheatre.
Several canoes grouped together at the bottom of small waterfall.
Staff and students on a hike in the autumn forest.
Staff pose with an Elder at Fall Harvest.
Student holds a large chunk of meat at Fall Harvest.
Students observe a ceremony inside a teepee.
Student rides a fat bike on a winter trail.
Student shows off a large pike caught ice fishing.
Student shows off a perch he caught ice fishing.
Student smiles at the camera outdoors.
Student tries plucking a dead duck at Fall Harvest.
Student works on a project outdoors using empty 2L pop containers.
Students and staff around a cooking fire outdoors.
Students and staff ice fishing.
Students camping near the shore in autumn.
Students chop firewood at a Fall Harvest.
Students examine moose parts at a Fall Harvest.
Students gather outside a teepee for a demonstration.
Students pose in front of a framed hide.
Students pose on a snowhill and rock in the winter.
Students rock climbing outdoors.
Students showcase their outdoor lunch in the forest.
Students use bone handles to clean a hide.
Students wander around at Fall Harvest.
Students wanter through displays set up for Fall Harvest.
Teepee frame as seen from the bottom looking up at the middle.
Teepee outside at Sioux North High School.
Three students butcher a moose on a table.
Three students clean a moose hide on a frame.
Three students laugh and feed a doe standing within arms reach.
Three students pose wearing life jackets outdoors.
Three students trace fabric for gauntlets.
Two students clean a bear hide on a frame.
Two students pose for the camera while sitting at the Fall Harvest.
Young girl in a ribbon skirt.
Young student hugs a wolf pelt.