Lakehead University Bora Laskin Faculty of Law students learn from the land – Anishinabek News
September 27, 2024
NEEBING — Two groups of Lakehead University Bora Laskin Faculty of Law students recently attended the Gaa-maada’ooniding Law Camp 2024 at the School of Indigenous Learning (SOIL) over two weeks in September. About 90 first-year law students attended the camp at SOIL, which is located south of Thunder Bay and about five minutes north of the U.S. border.
“It was very exciting, it was nice to put SOIL on the map for first-year law students,” says Jeordi Pierre, owner at SOIL and Fort William citizen. “They’re going to be here for the next three years so to give them some insight on the Indigenous people and how we are was very valuable for us and also for the students.”
Pierre says the camp included a variety of activities and teachings, including sweetgrass braiding teachings, the Seven Grandfather Teachings, a Medicine Walk, an Anishinaabemowin segment, some projects, the history of the Indigenous people of Canada, and campfire teachings.
