02 / Community, Learning & the Northern Lakes

Anishininewuk

Respect includes making space for the names communities use for themselves and the languages they carry forward.

A fictional woman in a dark jingle dress with coloured bands beside a northern lake.

Words of recognition

With Respect.

We honour Anishininewuk communities and their enduring relationships with northern Manitoba’s lands and waters. We recognize the work of families, educators and language holders who continue to teach and strengthen community knowledge.

Understanding this relationship

Listen to Local Names & Local Voices.

Garden Hill High School identifies its community as Garden Hill Anisininew Nation and describes education grounded in families, Elders and knowledge keepers. Its account places the community within the Island Lake region of northeastern Manitoba.

The Assembly’s heading uses Anishininewuk; the school uses Anisininew. Each form belongs to its source and deserves to be understood in context, rather than automatically treated as a spelling error.

Sources:Garden Hill community Manitoba Assembly

Language & Learning

Anisinimowin

Garden Hill High School identifies Anisinimowin as the Island Lake Native Dialect. MFNERC also names Anisinimowin in its language series. A community’s language deserves to be learned in its own context, with care for the names its speakers use.

Sources:Garden Hill community Language conversations

Assembly language source

The Assembly’s statement is its own source material. It is not a translation of our business acknowledgement. Community resources offer further language learning.