Noon Hour Teaching with Grandmother Marilyn Chevrier-Wills

Overview

Delivery method

Online

Duration

2 hours

Audience

All HC and PHAC Employees

Description

Marilyn Chevrier-Wills is an Anishinaabe cultural educator from the community of Timiskaming First Nation. Her spiritual name is Kishkatekwe Dishnika Mandodem (Moonlight Woman of the Clan of the Loon), but she is best known by most people inside and outside her community as “Grandma Marilyn”. Actively dedicated to the transmission and practice of her culture, Marilyn plays the role that Anishinaabe grandmothers have played for time immemorial. When not involved in the organization of events or ceremonies for her community, she is visiting an early childhood center in the region with her drum in her hand. Marilyn completed a degree in social work and Aboriginal studies at University of Sudbury. Kokoum Marilyn has become a prominent figure of Anishinaabe cultural life

CONTACT US AT ISKOTEW@SAC-ISC.GC.CA

Iskotew is a Cree word that signifies

the fire within an individual,

a family, a community or a Nation.

Iskotew Lodge is a teaching and

healing Lodge open to all federal

employees. Iskotew is managed by the

Indigenous Program Team (IPT) in

partnership with the First Nations and

Inuit Health Branch (FNIHB)’s Aboriginal

Employee Network (AEN).

Iskotew provides access to traditional

cultural supports, and offers diverse and

inclusive cultural activities, traditional

teachings, one-on-one sessions with

Elders and Knowledge Keepers, and

traditional artisan workshops