Date/Time
Date(s) - 24/01/2025
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Join the Indigenous Health Learning Lodge for a special workshop, “Haudenosaunee Teachings on Wellness,” during McMaster Thrive Week!

Date: January 24, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Location: Indigenous Health Learning Lodge, MDCL 3510

Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to register for a wellness workshop, led by Cari-Lyn Henhawk, Traditional Knowledge Hub Coordinator and Auntie-in-Residence at the IHLL. Cari will guide us through the Thanksgiving Address and share teachings on how our first medicines were gifted to us for our wellness.

This workshop includes:

• Story and Medicine Bag Creation: Learn the significance of medicine pouches while creating your own.
• Teachings on the Ganohonyok (Thanksgiving Address). Participants are offered brief insights into each section and understand how they serve as medicine for our well-being.
• Interactive Pop-Quiz: opportunity to reflect on learning with the chance to win exciting prizes.
• Snacks and Strawberry Juice: Food is an important part of our wellness!
• All materials will be provided for participants.

Registration is limited, so be sure to secure your spot soon! Registration ends on January 23rd at 1:00PM.

Register Here

Introduction to the Haudenosaunee Teachings on Wellness Facilitator Cari-Lyn Henhawk

Sge:no swagwe:goh,

Cari Ni’ gya:soh, Ohtahyo:ni: niwag’esyao’de, Gayogoho:no’ niwagohwej’ode:, Oswe:ge’ dwagahdegyo:,

Greetings everyone,

My name is Cari- Lynn Henhawk, My family is wolf clan, I am Cayuga nation of the Hodinosho:ni: Confederacy, and I reside at Six Nations of the Grand River. I am the Indigenous Health Learning Lodge’s (IHLL), New Traditional Hub Coordinator/ Auntie in Residence . My role will include coordinating the Traditional Hub as well as working closely with our Knowledge Keepers on how the Indigenous Health Learning Lodge can pave the way and fill the gaps that come with working with Indigenous students, future Indigenous patients in westernized society. I’ll be providing training, workshops and providing a safe space for sharing traditional knowledge in a non-invasive way, so that we may exist in harmonious and non-invasive way with western society, the way the Two Row Wampum was intended.

I am a proud graduate in the Traditional Medicine practitioner course facilitated by Juddahs Place, located on Six Nations territory. I possess an abundance of experience and knowledge helping Ogwehoweh (the real people, Indigenous people) heal themselves and a being carrier of traditional medicines and ceremonial knowledge. I am a passionate learner and speaker of Cayuga Language. Attending and helping at Ganohses (Longhouse) has also been a big part of my life. I have been facilitating traditional teachings and mentoring Indigenous children and youth for a few years now and I am looking forward to meeting and sharing some teachings with all of you.

By Cari-Lynn Henhawk