Millwood High School’s Netukulimk Class: Celebrating Apuknajit

Netukulimk Class

Millwood High School’s Science Teacher, Jenny Carroll created this class with the wisdom of the Mi’kmaq Elders.

This science class is Two-Eyed Seeing – Etuaptmumk; honouring both Mi’kmaq and colonial ways of knowing.




Two Eyed Seeing

Apuknajit

How to Pronounce Apuknajit

Mi'kmawey Debert Culteral Centre - Apuknajit

Apuknajit - Spirit of Winter by Gerald Gloade

Tobacco Offering

In honour of Apuknajit, Jenny Carroll’s Grade 12 Netukulimk Class took a walk outside to place offerings of apples and tobacco in woods surrounding the school.

If I remember correctly, the offering of tobacco within Indigenous culture signifies the sacredness between the giver and receiver.

The Giver is nature, the Receiver is us.

The apples nourish the local animals and composts back to Mother Earth.

S, 🌻


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