Honourable Mentions
Rick Miller Oneida Nation, Turtle Clan, and member of the Six Nations community. Rick is a retired Iron Worker and has also served in the Canadian Airborne Regiment. He helped support ROSP by maintaining, directing, and educating our youth on farming & sharing his own experiences in agriculture. Rick is also a second generation farmer and grew-up farming! Re-learning and getting back to the land is very important to him. Rick was generous to lend Revitalizing Our Sustenance Project parcels of land for hosting workshops and farming. Nya:weh Rick! Jheri Jamieson Born and raised in Six Nations of the Grand River. In 2017, graduated from Six Nations Polytechnic with a certificate in Indigenous Visual Arts but soon learned that my passions were in the digital media world. The next four years were dedicated to completing my Bachelors Degree in Digital Communications from Humber College. Jheri also completed her Internship as the Social Media Marketing Intern at Six Nations Tourism. During the internship began gaining clients for photography and learned that this was something that she enjoyed very much. As of July 2021, completed a whole year as a small business owner and photographed over one hundred and fifty sessions including Indigenous people from Six Nations as well as non-indigenous people from the surrounding area. Jheri has taken time throughout summer 2021 to photograph the garden, youth, and ROSP team. We admire & appreciate the work she has dedicated to the Six Nations community and has been a great asset to the development of ROSP! Follow her business on Facebook & Instagram @jjamiesoncreative Connor Martin Is from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and has a BA in Media Production at Ryerson University. She is the Founder and Director of Little Brown Bear Media. A media production company looking to tell Indigenous stories, while working with other entrepreneurs and small business owners. Connor created our very first video which is found on the website! We thank Connor for her work & efforts in support of ROSP! Follow her Instagram @littlebrownbearmedia Aicha Smith-Belghaba Mohawk Wolf from Six Nations and is also from Algeria, North Africa. Aicha owns and operates Esha's Eats, a local food catering business in Six Nations. Chef Aicha focuses on Indigenous foods and uses pre-contact Indigenous ingredients to create dishes that are new & exciting. While maintaining the essence of Indigenous foods to highlight the foods beauty and importance! Aicha has a passion for advocating, creating change, and awareness surrounding human rights issues & decolonizing Indigenous food systems. She has been featured on CBC APTN for the Hamilton Public Library in creating a YouTube series called "Kitchen with Esh". Aicha helped create a cooking series with us called "Eating Together... with Esha's Eats" and "Rebirthing Our Foods". We are currently finishing the projects so stay tune! Follow Esha's Eats on Instragram & Facebook! |
Amy General Seneca Nation Turtle Clan of the Hodinohsyo:ni and resides in Six Nations of the Grand River. Her post-secondary education in Indigenous Language Revitalization (UVIC), Native Social Worker (F.N.T.I/St. Lawrence), and Ogwehoweh Language Diploma (MAC). Amy's parents and other knowledge carriers have shown her the different means of connections we hold to the natural world, and how important it is to maintain these connections through traditional practices. Amy helped facilitate workshops over summer 2021 and volunteered time throughout the season in maintaining the garden with her family. Amy helps to educate & share knowledge with the youth and is helping with the development of ROSP. Her hope is to pass along what she has learned from elders to the younger ones who will carry it forward! Kari Miller Cayuga Nation, Wolf Clan, born in Niagara Falls, NY and grew-up on the Tuscarora Reservation near Sanborn, NY. Kari moved back to Six Nations in her early 20's to raise her four girls and start a new life. She founded the Six Nations Girls Field Lacrosse Association and was part of the first Iroquois Nationals women's team. Kari also was one of the founding members of the Haudenosaunee Nationals which is now known as the Iroquois Nationals. She also gained her Aboriginal Teachers certification at Brock University and currently teaches at Kawenni:io/Gaweni:yo Private School. We thank Kari for contributing her time throughout the season of 2020 & 2021, cooking meals for our guests, gardening, and helping out with workshops! Sonia Hill Shé:kon! My name is Sonia Hill and I am Mohawk from Six Nations and Lebanese. My pronouns are they/them. I am a Masters candidate at McMaster University in Sociology where I co-chair the Indigenous Solidarity Working Group with CUPE3906. I was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario which is where my work is centered currently, working with urban Indigenous/displaced Onkwehonwe as coordinator of Kahnekanoron and director of the Indigenous Sustenance Reclamation Network (ISRN). Kahnekanoron is a peer support program centred around reclaiming traditional sustenance (food and medicine) practices and teachings in the city! In the past, ROSP has hosted Kahnekanoron kin for harvesting and processing of foods grown in the garden. We are excited to work together again for future sessions co-hosted by ROSP and Kahnekanoron. As director of ISRN, I work to support ROSP by seeking out grants to share amongst programs relating to the Indigenous Sustenance Reclamation Network, including ROSP. When I’m not at school or working I like to longboard, write poetry, work with plants, and be with the communities that hold me close and accountable. |
Revitalizing our Sustenance Project
Located in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
revitalizingoursustenance@gmail.com
Located in Six Nations of the Grand River Territory
revitalizingoursustenance@gmail.com