Experience Overview
Your Indigenous Land-Based Learning features a dynamic daily itinerary. Days typically begin with breakfast at your cabin and personal lunch preparation. Ingredients will be provided for participants to make their own meals. The remainder of the day blends site visits with local organizations, community-based workshops, alongside immersive cultural exploration. A full daily itinerary review is shared with you prior to your first Indigenous Land-Based Learning class. Please note that WATER activities, where you will enter bodies of water (lakes, rivers, etc.) are included in the itinerary and are mandatory.
Highlights
- Where Cultures Meet
- Tour of the Historic House enjoying the preserved museum and the woods
- Woodland Cultural Centre
- Kayanase Green house
- A Day of Play
- Childhood home of E. Pauline Johnson
- Traditional Haudenosaunee game of lacrosse
- Basic archery techniques
- Canoeing the Grand River
- Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address
- History of the Six Nations
- Carolinian Forest
* Please note that all experience highlights are subject to change
Program Information
PLEASE READ APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS FULLY BEFORE APPLYING
This opportunity is available to all Niagara College students enrolled in the Social Service Worker Program who:
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- Are currently enrolled in the Social Service Worker Program (P0123) at Niagara College
- Have not yet taken part in a Be World Ready GLE experience since beginning their studies at Niagara College
- Are in good academic standing, as defined by Niagara College’s policies, at the time of registration and before the departure dates
- Remain actively enroled, full-time, in a program at Niagara College during the term of the experience
- Will be enroled in the Indigenous Entering Indigenous Communities – Land, Relationship & Respect GEN-ED course (INDG1170)
- If you do not have any remaining general or liberal electives left to complete for your program, you would be subject to the Tuition-Credits Exceeding Load fee. Information regarding this fee will be shared with you at the time of your registration by BWR.
Round-trip transportation by van, shared accommodations, program fees and all meals as indicated in the itinerary. Participants will need to bring spending money for any extra food or meals if they decide not to utilize the provided ingredients, souvenirs, incidentals, or items of a personal nature.
High – WATER-BASED and LAND-BASED ACTIVITIES – you will be expected to participate in ALL activities, including those that take place in the WATER (lakes, rivers, etc). Lots of walking, standing and physical activities.
3 Nights in shared “Grand Cabin” accommodations.
You will have your own bed in a shared room and shared bathroom.
The log cabins are designed to match authentic local culture and history, while providing a rustic, yet modern stay enveloped in a beautiful Carolinian forest.
Features: Covered front porch, Stocked kitchenette, 2 Burner Stovetop, 1 Private shared bathroom and shower within cabin, Heating/Cooling, Dining area, Private fire-pit, basic WiFi.
As included in itinerary. Ingredients provided for participants to create their own meals.
All international or domestic students, in full-time or part-time* status, and in good academic standing at Niagara College, are eligible for a Be World Ready grant to help offset the cost of their Indigenous Land-Based Learning experience. You must be actively enroled in studies during the term of travel to participate. The BWR grant has been applied to the total cost of the experience to subsidize the rate per person. To qualify for the full value of the BWR grant, mandatory training and tasks are required to be completed, training and task expectations will be clearly communicated. Failure to complete the requirements as outlined may result in disqualification of grant eligibility. Details on grant requirements will be shared with you as part of the mandatory Entering Indigenous Communities – Land, Relationship & Respect (INDG 1170) course, which all students participating must enrol in and successfully complete. Eligibility requirements can vary from term-to-term, and from one experience to the next.
*Part-time students, are defined by Be World Ready as those actively enroled in a Niagara College program, taking a minimum of 2 classes during the term of the IEntering Indigenous Communities – Land, Relationship & Respect experience that contribute to their program progression and credential completion. Students taking a class that does not contribute to a program would not qualify to participate.