Abiinooji Aki, Inc. Cultural Healing Center

04/27/2026

We're in a clean energy world, and dirty fossil fuels have no place in it. Join us in contacting Gov. Whitmer to reject the Line 5 oil tunnel this Earth Day!

03/27/2026

03/17/2026

When the world feels overwhelming, it helps to return to the teachings that ground us.

For Indigenous Peoples, our relationship with the Earth has always been built on reciprocity and respect. Land, water, plants, animals, and people are all a part of the same living system. How we care for one another shapes the future we share.

A reminder today to honour those responsibilities and the relationships that sustain life.
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Lorsque le poids du monde nous semble trop lourd à porter, il est bon de revenir aux enseignements qui nous ancrent dans la réalité.

Pour les peuples autochtones, notre relation avec la Terre a toujours reposé sur la réciprocité et le respect. La terre, l’eau, les plantes, les animaux et les êtres humains font tous partie d’un même système du vivant. La manière dont nous prenons soin les un·e·s des autres façonne l’avenir que nous partageons.

Rappelons-nous d’honorer ces responsabilités et toutes les relations qui permettent à la vie de perdurer.

03/17/2026

03/10/2026

A powerful investigation from The New York Times highlights what many Indigenous communities have been raising for decades.

Downstream from the Alberta tar sands, Elders and scientists are documenting alarming changes in the land and water. Fish with lesions and deformities, disappearing muskrat populations, contaminated bird eggs, and growing concerns about rare cancers in Fort Chipewyan. These are not abstract environmental issues. These are lived realities for communities who have relied on these waters for thousands of years.

More than half a million Olympic sized swimming pools worth of toxic tailings waste sit upstream along the Athabasca River. Research suggests millions of litres of contaminated water may be leaking into surrounding groundwater every single day. Now there are proposals that could allow treated tailings wastewater to be released directly into the Athabasca River system.

For Indigenous peoples downstream, the question remains simple and urgent. If the water is not safe to drink, fish from, or harvest from, how can it be considered safe to release?

The Athabasca River flows north through Treaty territories and into the Mackenzie River Basin, eventually reaching the Arctic Ocean. What happens in the tar sands does not stay in the tar sands.

At Keepers of the Water we stand with the communities of Fort Chipewyan and all downstream Nations calling for accountability, transparency, and protection of our waters.

Water is life. It is not a sacrifice zone.

Read the full story and learn why Indigenous communities are sounding the alarm.

03/23/2024

11/07/2022

Join us Saturday November 12, 2022 for our Fall LiveStream Fundraiser! You can view our Fall LiveStream Fundraiser at our Women and Water Coming Together Women & Water Coming Together Symposium facebook Page.
We will be live from 8 am to 8 pm with stories, music, speakers and so much more!
All items for sale on our website will be updated by November 11, 2022. Keep an eye out! We have some great Native American crafted items!
www.spiritofthewater.org

03/29/2020

Stay home folks.

THE LATEST: There are more than 900 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the state. https://on.tmj4.com/2UdXFVE