Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory Anishinaabekwe recognized for volunteer efforts – Anishinabek News
December 1, 2025
OTTAWA — Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory’s Dolores Peltier-Corkey was recently recognized for her volunteer efforts with the Ottawa Indigenous Children and Youth Pow Wow during the Community Gathering on Nov. 6 at the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre. Peltier-Corkey, tenant relations officer at Gignul Non-Profit Housing Corporation, was recognized during the Recognizing and Honouring Community presentation at the Community Gathering, which was hosted by the Ottawa Aboriginal Coalition and the UAS-Ottawa Steering Committee.
“It was a recognition, it’s honouring the volunteer work that I’ve been doing in the Indigenous community here in Ottawa and it was particularly relating to the Children and Youth Pow Wow that has been going on since the early days of 1997,” Peltier-Corkey says. “I’ve been promoting this pow wow for over 20 years. I started out as a volunteer first in 1997 when I first moved here.”
