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Blast from the past: Podcast highlighting the Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest

Back in 2021, the podcast series “Threads,” hosted by Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba, held a conversation with Kapabmayak Achaak Healing Forest co-founder, the late Lee Anne Block, along with co-chair, Val Vint, and Keeper Kerry Saner-Harvey.   The conversation, held at the Forest's ceremonial circle, came at a poignent time, just a few weeks before the search for unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School site became headline news. Lee Anne said of the Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest, "It wasn't any one person's idea of what a memorial to children lost to the residential school system should be. It really emerged from a lot of deep and some very difficult conversations amongst us."  The conversation was aired again in September of 2023 and can be streamed/read here:

Keepers Val Vint (left) and Lee Anne Block (right) along with Councillor Ross Eadie at the Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest naming ceremony.
Keepers Val Vint (left) and Lee Anne Block (right) along with Councillor Ross Eadie at the Kapabamayak Achaak Healing Forest naming ceremony.

 
 
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Location

Located on the north side of St. John's Park 

1 Fowler Street

Winnipeg, Manitoba R2W 1E2

Treaty 1 Territory and the homeland of the Red River Métis.

Educational Resources

Contact the Keepers of the Forest for additional support

healingforestwpg@gmail.com

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