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Anishinaabe Aki Kakendamowin – Phase 2

Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership

April 2020 – Current

Project entails Phase 2 of the proposed twinning of Highway 17 across Manitoba and Ontario, being undertaken by the Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership. Narratives’ role on the project is leading the Anishinaabe Aki Kakendamowin (“The Anishinaabe know our lands”), a study documenting historic and current land and resource use. Phase 2 focuses on the twinning from Highway 673 eastward, approximately 9 km to Rush Bay Road.

You can learn more about Phase 1 of the Project here.

Five Indigenous men wearing t-shirts and ball caps sit on red chairs in a circle while they drum on a large drum in the middle. They are sitting inside a large wooden ceremonial building.

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A paper woven bowl and two birch bark bowls containing orange slices sit in the grass with sage smoke drifting around them.

Anishinaabe Aki Kakendamowin – Phase 1

Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership

January 2019 – March 2020

An Anishinaabe drum sits on a grassy field. In the foreground is a container for smudging. Empty chairs are in the background.

Harmonized Impact Assessment – Phase 2

Niiwin Wendaanimok Partnership

April 2020 – Current

A yellow CAT excavator sits beside a highway under construction. A smaller bulldozer sits to the left of it. Behind the machines sits large concrete pipes.

Highway 673 Improvement Project

Shoal Lake 40 First Nation

December 2020 – February 2021