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Mino Nendmowin
Good Minds
and
Pre-Employment Learning
Anishinaabemwin Teg Conference 2012
Agenda
The Team
Mino Nendmowin
Contexts
Pre and Post Test
Program Features
Program Streams
– Family Tree
– Anishinaabemowin
– Path of Life - Miikan
Participant Comments
Dialogue
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The Team
Anishinabemowin/Teachings
– Jennie Blackbird
– Jo – Anne Day
Family Tree/ Genealogy
– Susan Jones
Coordinator/Facilitator/Instructor
– Bryan Loucks
Literacy/High School Credits Instructor
Community Resource People
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Mino = Good
Nendmowin = the mind,
thinking, choice making
Mino Nendmowin
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Participants
o urban and on reserve
o 100 Participants since
2009
o 10-14 participants/
session
o 2 to 6 week formats
o 3-4 days per week
o 3 weeks with levels101,
102
Community Base
– Ontario Works/ Social
Assistance
– Agencies and community
members
Mino Nendmowin
Program
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Participant Context Lack of self confidence/self esteem, Isolated
Limited expectations, lack of goals
Limited experience, skills, knowledge
Lack of opportunity to learn “where we come from in
order to know where we are going”
Untapped resources/resiliency
Community Context Poverty
Lack of opportunity, access
Dependency and Intergenerational Challenges
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Shognoshii Naadziwin
assimilationist models of
learning have offered limited
direct benefit to Aboriginal
peoples.
For generations,
conventional education,
literacy & employment
training programs have
been failing Aboriginal
peoples, in terms of:
• retention,
• graduation,
• employability,
• citizenship.
Learning Context
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Our experience, and the educational and
healing literatures point to the primary
roles of: – Identity
– Relationships
– Language
– Place
to personal and collective, achievement,
health, learning and sustainability.
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What We Know..
Mino Nendmowin contributes to:
• high retention rates,
• high participant satisfaction ratings
• significant outcomes in the area of self
directed learning skills.
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• goal planning
• literacy, essential skills
and high school credits
Pre and Post Test • Increases in motivation to attend the program.
• Increases in the importance of cultural learning to
achieving goals.
• Increases in the importance of healing and
understanding to achieve goals.
• Increases in self confidence, self esteem.
• Increases in personal control to influence life
circumstances.
• Increases in expectations of self.
• Increases in hope for the future.
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Program Streams
The program consists of
three (3) integrated
streams of learning.
– Self/Cultural Connections
– Community Connections,
– Education Development
Cultural Connections & Development
Community Connections
& Development
Education Development
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Spirals of Connections & Development
Family Tree/
History
Self
Anishinabemowin
Community Service/
Education
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Family Tree and History
Old Community Photographs
Family Tree
Connections to Language and History
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Place
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Pottawatomie Mnishening
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Local Animals
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Ferries and Visitors
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Local Commerce
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Homes
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Residential School Legacy
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Sources for Family Tree Research
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Treaty Names
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Anishinabemowin
Mino giizh gat- Good day
Mino gizheb waaban -
Good morning
Maag taa daa - Lets’ start
Bizandaan - Listen, (heart
and mind)
Mino Nendomwin
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Sayings
Geget Sana! – Oh for goodness sake!
Wewiibtaan! - Hurry up (s.)
Taa yah - Oh Heck!, Gee whiz!!
Miin-waa - Again
Be-kaa yaanh - Be quiet (pl)
Boon-taa-daa - Let’s have a break
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Swejwinong - Walpole Island - where
the waters (flow-through)
Chiig biig - upfront – along the river
Aazhwaakwaa - back settlement -
Pottawattamie island
Niisaajwan - near squirrel Island,
Chematogan
Ziibii - River, St. Clair
Chigmi - Body of water, Lake
Bkejwanong Places
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Things
Mi-gi-zi – Eagle
De - Heart
De min – Strawberry
Bgoji beshgoog shiig - Wild horses
Bgoji wawaas koneh - Wild flowers
Ki - Earth
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Endearment
N-da-zaa-gin - I love you,
Da zaa gin ge gii - I love
you too
Jiim-shiin - Kiss me
G-da mes nin - I miss you
N’gii zaad end am - I am
sorry
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Gn ni maagewin - Warnings
Baataashin - Stuck in
a puddle
Gaansmaa - Enable
Shognoshii naadziwin
Gaawin mnikwe sii
gwe sii - I do not want to
drink
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To Resist –Na gaa kiisjige
Gaboontaa sii - Never give up .
Geg waa wii kaa - I never give up (singl)
Ga nizaadzimi (pl) Let’s stay sober let’s
straighten up
Nizaadzin (sl) - Come to your senses
Gam shko wendam! - Be determined!
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Ancestors
Manitowaube, Tecumseh's first lieutenant, who for his devotion
and faithfulness was given a silver medal by the Prince of Wales
(later Edward VII) when he visited Sarnia 1860;
Shawanoe; and other Indian chiefs who fought with
Tecumseh
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Keyoshka,
Minomencr,
Miskokomon,
Thceahyaba,
Nadhee,
Shageemah,
Meness
Nawajigeezhig
Shashaebay
Shaugun
Peetaygeeshig
Mukonce
Auwunausuhway
Thomas Buckwheat
Kaugush
Kuhyaugewash
Manidogaubow
And many more…
Affirmations Nii mshko wendmowin - I have a strong mind
N gii zhendam - I made up my
mind! (Possessive)
Nin dwen daan giiyak
waadziwin - I want honesty
Maamii kwendam
maadziyaa - I am happy to be alive
Nii aanjtoon bimaadziwin - I want to change my life style
Oh Mii-iw - Way to Go!
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Path of Life
Maadziwin - Life
Mino maadziwin - Good Life
Mii-kan – Road
Education - Chi kendaaswin
Finding Harmony
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SEVEN GIFTS
OF THE GRANDFATHERS
ZONGIGE’EWIN—BRAVERY
Strong Heart
To Face the Foe with Integrity
NIBWAAKAAWIN —WISDOM
To Cherish Knowledge is to Know Wisdom
DEBWEWIN — TRUTH
Evident Truth within and without
To Know All these Things
ZAAGI’DIWIN — LOVE
Comes from and emerges from the
heart
To Know Love is to Know Peace
TABASSENINDISOWIN — HUMILITY
Low flying cloud
To Know your Self as one part of
Creation
MANAADJI’INENIMAWIN —
RESPECT
To Honour all Creation is to have
Respect
GWAYAKWAADIZIN — HONESTY
Straight like a tree
Facing a situation is to be Honest
We are warned we must be aware
The Seven Gifts have their
opposites.
Participant Comments
“Learning the Anishinabe mowin – I learned hundred percent more than before, it makes me want to learn more. It reminds me of my mother
who always spoke Anishinabe mowin.”
“I am able to communicate more openly and clearly with family
members and support each other, without yelling all the time.”
“Did not even know that I was empty - the program helped me fill my
bucket…[I]did not have any teachings growing up .”
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“My parents did not speak the language in front of us, even though they could although my grandparents did
– we learned the reasons why our language was repressed.”
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“Hearing Anishinabe mowin had a calming effect on me; it gives me the desire to get outside to get outdoors and be with nature.” “Now I want to help the young people to share my story, to help family and self to move forward”
Comments “The program has helped me focus on how to focus myself in way to
achieve my goals.”
“It provided the inspiration to be grateful for little and big things- our identity, the lessons for life, our land and waters. It gave us
inspiration to resist and protect our lands and waters and futures.”
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“Our history - Tecumseh showed how we were connected throughout the Great
Lakes and we would not be here without the stand that they took. They gave us
many lessons to remember …not to surrender our lands and rights and
lives.”
Contact Information
Naugon Associates Bryan Loucks
Walpole Island First Nation
2026 River Rd. N.
RR#3 Wallaceburg, ON N8A 4K9
519 627-5110
Wiijnokiiying - Walpole Island Ontario Works
519 627-3583
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