Events & Workshops

The SWG, in partnership with the Library Services for Saskatchewan Aboriginal Peoples Inc. (LSSAP) bring you Daphie Pooyak!! Daphie has been taught tradition storytelling and healing from an early age and continues her practise in traditional healing and wellness. Hosted by Kaleigh River Aramenko.

To register, visit: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GxOwZBN3TAaNN20LctccyA

Presenter

Daphie Pooyak identifies as a Nakota Cree traditional teacher, and cultural advisor. Daphie comes from Sweetgrass First Nation located in central Saskatchewan. Mother of 7 children and grandmother of 7 grandchildren. Over the course of 20-plus years, she has worked as a professional educator specializing in cultural education, and land-based learning. Working in the area of addictions, healing and trauma. In recent years she has facilitated several presentations throughout Canada, USA and Mexico on healing trauma, natural law and traditional medicine. Some notable of which happened in 2015 where she was asked to join in prayer and speak and “World Peace & Prayer Day” in Oregon. “The Parliament of World Religion” hosted by the United Nations in Salt Lake City. Her passion remains to her roots, in hosting traditional survival camps over the past 18 years in her community Sweetgrass First Nation. 

Host

Kaleigh River Aramenko is a proud Cree and Dakota woman from Ile a la Crosse, SK and a member of James Smith Cree Nation, with roots extending across Treaty 6. She is a poet, an upcoming author, mother, and is currently finishing her diploma in Mental Health and Wellness at SIIT. She finished her Bachelor's degree in English at the University of Saskatchewan in 2019. She loves learning about her culture, being on the land, and walking her journey on the red road. 

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