11/08/2025
Shé:kon sewakwekon! My name is Katie Doreen from Kenhtè:ke and I’m the editorial and education coordinator for the Biinaagami project.
Today, I’m super excited to finally announce that we have been working with the editorial team at to put together a special issue featuring stories of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence watershed.
At Biinaagami, we aim to teach people about these waters through a two-eyed seeing perspective. Our lesson plans and teaching materials fit within Canadian curriculums and we regularly work with practicing teachers.
However, in Indigenous ways of teaching, nothing is as important as storytelling. Our stories, passed from generation to generation, connect us to place through relationship with the land and teach us about our shared responsibility to walk Mother Earth in a good way.
We’ve worked with countless Indigenous and non-Indigenous writers, artists, photographers, illustrators, Elders and Knowledge Keepers to capture some stories of the Great Lakes and the teachings they carry.
If you’re a CanGeo subscriber, watch your mailbox over the next few weeks for the arrival of this special issue (in addition to the regular magazine). If not, keep an eye on Biinaagami.org as we periodically digitize more of these stories.
Nyawen’kó:wa to everyone who shared a piece of themselves within these pages. I hope you love it as much as I do. 🌊💙
📸: Cover photo by of 🛶 Waasekom Niin, Saugeen Ojibway Nation Territory
