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What do you need to be well in your life?
- Ceremonies and Ritual
- Young peeps, physical activity and basketmaking
- A positive Family relationship, physical activity as way of self care, and meditation.
- Healthy diet and physical activity, LISTEN to Women
- Understanding your own capabilities as a person and recognizing your environment, positive vibes.
- Positive thinking, what you put out into creation you will receive.
- Know who you are and stick up for your self and have a family.
- Being outside, and spending time with relatives.
- Communication and sharing your feelings.
- Returning and connecting to the Land.
- Being on the Land of the Ancestors
- Seeking truths in Life, Clarity in the bush, Ceremony, Self Care, Transform the energies within.
- Thanking God for another day and acknowledge traits that need to be exemplified. Physical activity walking and cycling.
What do you feel is important to pass down to future generations?
- Teachings
- Patience and compassion
- Love and Respect, of self and other
- Respecting our Mother the Earth.
- Peace and what is possible.
- Reasoning, everything has a purpose.
- Self-Worthiness in the young people.
- Love, respect, and awareness of all people.
- Self-respect and kindness.
- self-esteem and confidence.
- Language and Culture.
- Spiritual Life and self respect
- Bimaadiziwin, just living.
- Being content with what you have.
From your experience, what is one improvement you would suggest to improve the success of Indigenous learners?
- Patience
- Knowledge and forgiveness
- Recognize your confidence
- Honour frustration
- More ceremonies and child care
- Cultural visibility.
- Changing curriculum.
- Know your teachings
- Be on the Land
- Ceremony
- More funding.
- Faith and Belief.

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What do you need to be well in your life?
- A new day, positive outlook on life and seeing the sun rise
- Honoring your own identity
- Laughter
- Beading (self-care), friends for uplifting and support
- Being proud to be Anishinaabe
- Find happiness in all areas of life
- Thanking the creator everyday, smudging
- Being around family (Niece) creates happiness and hope
- Being positive on a regular basis
- Taking care of our physical vessel e.g., sleeping, eating properly
- Love and to give love with intention (respect), be open to students feedback and  enjoying music
-  Playing with friends outside in the sunshine
- Need something to keep busy, occupied with time
- Willingness to learn and listen to what  other people have to say
- Proper rest to be present
- Trusting your work team to move forward

What do you feel is important to pass down to future generations?
- Laughter brightens up your day
- A sense of worth and passion; Reason to move forward
- A sense of pride to be who you are
- Maintaining our languages
- Passing down stories, good medicine, & confidence
- Acceptance
- Encouragement
- Basic morals; Seven Grandfather teachings, particularly patience. Understanding
- Knowing that our children are loved and accepted here
- Language & our stories about the history of our people (how families lived and how it was back 3 to 4 generations ago)
- Spending/making time with loved ones to listen to values
- Build, invent and learn how to survive in the wild
- Passing down knowledge about the history of our people e.g., 60's Scoop
- Pass down the ability to speak up for ourselves
- Knowing where we come from
- Abilities to hunt and fish, respect for the land and keeping those family traditions alive.  Passing on the importance of education.
- A firm believer in the ancestors that come before us and providing our young ones with the knowledge and support to provide for our families.

From your experience, what is one improvement you would suggest to improve the success of Indigenous learners?
- Listen
- Patience in what your learning
- Keep an open-mind
- Activism and fearlessness
- More programming (In an Institution) of Indigenous Cultural
- Figuring out what kind of a learner you are; Understanding the western
- Stay focused and ignore the stereotypes and negativity
- Finding that one thing that you like or love
- The relationship to learn from one another; keeping an open learning environment between teachers and students
- Encouraging and mentoring our students in a cultural understanding of traditions; Nurturing the importance of Indigenous Knowledge
- Inclusion of learning about Indigenous peoples and being able to celebrate Indigenous peoples; Finding ways to show that our Indigenous peoples have a lot to offer
- Teaching people about the colonialism
- Stop putting Indigenous People in a box; Explaining the truth
- To be open to new information

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What do you need to be well in your life?
- sponsors (supports)
- physical activity
- peer mentors
- meditation
- sports
- healthy competition
- the outdoors
- family (major key)
- sleep (major key)
- music
- self love, self care (positivity)
- purpose (something that aligns with ones life work)
- downtime (time for yourself)
- food
- humor (major key)
- dance (anishinabe or comtemporary)
- financial stability
- driving around
- going for walks
- connection to the land
What do you feel is important to pass down to future generations?
- the culture
- very thing on earth is interconnected
- land appreciation (responsibility to the land)
- Positive outlook on life
- clean drinking water
- love instead of inter-generational trauma
- humility (being one in creation)
-  knowledge of the medicines
- being mindful of privileged
- being respectful of others
From your experience, what is one improvement you would suggest to improve the success of Indigenous learners?
- flexible educations (incorporate outside knowledge and institutional knowledge)
- maintaining relationships
- educational institutions recognize the land, territories and nations that instution is on
- acknowledge the truth
- having representation at every level
- recognize alternative ways of learning
- value all knowledge
- acknowledge ways of learning
- freedom to invent
- ensure when hiring that people are aware of the territory they are hoping to work on
- incorporate hands on activity; engage the learners
- ensure that there is training for educators because the elder and teachers are spread very thin
-have funding for knowledge

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What do you need to be well in your life?

Humor

Sense of Community

Responsibility of being relied one

Prayer

Healthy relationships with those around me

Sense of interconnectiveness - connection with nature and the land, brings sense of balance

A career you love

Self improvement -even the small ones count

Being Physically Active - both physical and mentally

Support - from all

Knowledge - passing it on

Identity - search

Acceptance - for who we are without being judged/attacked for who we are

Water

Good nights sleep

Activism - something to advocate for

Goals

Family (connection) and Traveling

Comfort and proud of who I am

Passion in the things I do and share that with others

Need to know who I am, language, culture, reclaim what was stolen

What do you feel is important to pass down to future generations?

Being thankful for what we have

Teaching children the critical thinking skills and challenging the thoughts of the norms we are used too

Respect and reciprocity in relationships - live your words through your actions

Ceremonies and the teachings behind them, living them everyday

Importance of our family history and the connections to our culture

The teachings from Creator

To protect our Earth for she is the mother of all life - to nurture and show love,

Kindness - to yourself and others

Importance of natural elements - water, life, the world, experience of nature

Traditions

The language(s)

Sense of Identity - pride in your culture

Being able to live and walk in both worlds (indig. & non-indig)

7 Grandfather Teachings

From your experience, what is one improvement you would suggest to improve the success of Indigenous learners?

Culturally sensitive counselling support - especially those coming from rural and remote communities

To know it is okay to fail and to try again, we all have our strengths and weaknesses

Praise and reassurance

Deeper relationships in the connections we make

Support in place will aid in the success

Access to a range of support to all Indigenous students, readily available

Full immersion of Indigenous languages, from the classroom to everyday settings to the land

The application of knowledge, from classroom to the real world

Answers are not always correct, perspectives define them

Success is not linear - continuous support no matter what

More Indigenous people in different fields of work

Less classes indoor, shorter hours work/classes

Learning from the world outside, nature, the connections with the world of nature

Curiosity

Learn from others

Indigenous representation within the institutions

Leading by example

Empowerment - letting them know who they are, is how they were created to be.

Self love, self-identity and self-esteem

Celebrate all the successes along the way