Future History

Kris and Sarain begin this season’s journey exploring their individual paths. Kris delves into his family history with his uncle Mike McMillian and his mother Margaret Clark. Sarain prepares her medicine bundle with her mother, Traditional Practitioner Banakonda Kish.

Kris travels to Manitoulin Island for “The Unceded Journey,” a guided walking tour that memorializes historical landmarks in the community. Sarain meets with 13-year old Water Activist and Cultural Warrior Autumn Peltier and joins her and her family in a Water Ceremony.

Kris visits the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation on M’Chigeeng First Nation, an organization that houses their own artifacts and creates projects of repatriation, education, and excavation. Sarain sits down with Jesse Unapik Mike, Moriah Sallaffie and members of the Qanak Collective to discuss the importance of a political and cultural hub for this small Inuit community in Iqaluit.

Kris takes part in a Wampum Belt & Treaty Teaching Workshop with Artist Brenda Lee and Journalist/Educator Maurice Switzer in North Bay.

Kris joins Brandon Oolayou, Inuk from Frobisher Bay, on a seal hunt and Nellie Kusugak, Commissioner of Nunavut, shares what life is like in Nunavut. Sarain discusses issues of suicide in the North.

Kris sits with Elder Advocate Meeka Mike and learns about her fight to protect Qaujimajatuqangit (Inuit Knowledge.) Sarain throws herself into an improvisation game with theatre students.

Kris gets a personal tour from Park Manager Jeff Monague, who takes Kris on a survival skills walk-in Springwater Park near Barrie, Ontario.

Kris visits the Haudenosaunee Longhouses in the interactive museum of Ska-nah-doht Village in the Lower Thames Valley. Sarain tackles the famous Cup and Saucer Trail on Manitoulin Island.

Kris learns about the ancient practice of pictographs from Artist, Activist and Anishnaabe Knowledge Keeper Isaac Murdoch. Sarain goes to North Bay and visits with K'Tigaaning Midwives.

Kris meets with Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow, the first-ever Associate Curator of Historical Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa.

Kris gets a personal tour by brother/sister scholars Jade and Mitch Huguenin who are largely responsible for the inclusion of Metis history and knowledge in the historical site.

Kris walks through the Sheguiandah Quarry on Manitoulin Island, an unmarked prehistoric site that proves Indigenous settlement since the Ice Age.

Kris goes to Ottawa to meet Elaine Kicknosway, 60's Scoop Advocate and Co-Founder of The National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network.