Community Report

Miskanawah's 2025/26 Annual Report
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Events

Please check out our Events Calendar for upcoming events and programs.
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Videos

Miskanawah Creation Story - Elder Patrick Daigneault
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Bringing Them Home 2026 community gathering and event sponsor recognition

Kinanâskomitin. Thank You.

To our Elders, Survivors, families, volunteers, staff, Fire Keepers, sponsors and community partners, thank you for making our 4th Annual Bringing Them Home: 4-Day Sacred Fire possible.

Together, we created space for ceremony, remembrance, healing and connection.

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What We Offer:

Guided by Indigenous teachings, Miskanawah offers culturally based, supportive services to people in the Calgary area as they strengthen their circles of self, family, community, and culture. All Miskanawah programs and offerings are rooted in the concept of Wahkotiwin (Cree for 'living in relationship'). By working in alignment with Wahkotiwin, Miskanawah creates a stronger sense of community and inclusion, becoming more than an agency people can access or are referred to for services. Miskanawah becomes a community stream within itself, where those who choose to engage can Miskamaso (Cree for 'discover for yourself') a Wahkotiwin journey. The intent is to develop a sense of community for families in an environment of belonging and cultural safety, where the hopes and aspirations of individuals, families and children are encouraged and supported.

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Building Relatives:

Guided by the traditional teachings embedded within Wahkotiwin (Cree Natural Law of interconnection and kinship), our relationships and connections with those we serve are the foundation for the services we provide. Today, Miskanawah's community and cultural offerings have grown beyond a Miskanawah specific strategy, to embody a Building Relatives strategy, where Miskanawah's cultural resources, teachings and practices are relied upon heavily by our non-indigenous allies. Miskanawah has a strong reputation for being collaborators and leading a way that naturally creates ethical space between Indigenous and Western knowledge systems. We understand that true Reconciliation involves learning and engagement by all communities, in an environment that welcomes collaboration, intergenerational knowledge sharing, and relational accountability. Miskanawah invites relatives from diverse backgrounds to miskamaso (discover for yourselves) how we can walk alongside each other to enhance cultural connections, cultural understandings and Reconciliation within Moh’kinsstis.

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Land Acknowledgement

Miskanawah is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina; and the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Good Stoney. We acknowledge that this territory is also home to the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation of Alberta Districts 5 & 6. Finally, we acknowledge all Nations – Indigenous and non – who live on this land, and who honour and celebrate this territory.

Miskanawah offers services to children, youth, and families within the City of Calgary, which is located on land adjacent to where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. The traditional Blackfoot name of this place is “Moh'kinstsis”.