One Dish One Spoon
Self-Determination Framework
A Contribution to The Great Remembering
What is "The Great Remembering"
Sandra Lachance of Big River First Nation shared teachings from her mother and grandmother while her community was living through a devastating crisis; described the importance of women, families, language, relationships, and the responsibilities people hold for one another. Her grandmother spoke of the Great Remembering, a return to knowledge and principles that have sustained Indigenous peoples across generations.
Nyà:wen to our Sponsors and Donors
The One Dish Project was carried by the support of multiple sponsors and grants, never government funding. Their contributions built the greenhouse, the gardens, and the indoor and outdoor learning spaces where the work happened. Thanks to their support, the project was able to end and continue on as the successful model of self-determination it was meant to be.
Monitoring, analysis, and presentation of the One Dish One Spoon Self-Determination Framework will be conducted through The Looking Glass: Used, Rare, and Unusual Books; the final form the project took to establish economic self-determination.
Weaving Ancestral Knowledge and Modern Tools
Kayanere'kowa (Great Law of Peace) was intended by The Peacemaker to be spread across Turtle Island.
Symbolic to the way the Journey of the Peacemaker began, the River as Teacher is the systemic disruption framework. It examines the systems themselves - education, healthcare, justice, child welfare, the arts - and treats the structure, not the people inside it, as the thing that has to change.
The Land as Teacher is where land-based practice becomes curriculum: integration and lesson planning built from years of doing the work in real conditions. This calls back to the instructions of The Peacemaker to care for creation and give our thanks to all living beings.
One Dish One Spoon Self-Determination Framework is the whole thing when they are used together. Each one stands on Haudenosaunee principles: Peace, Strength, and a Good Mind. Each one is carried by the energy of the Elders who have been saying this for generations and the Youth who have been asking for it.
Living Knowledge, Treaties, and Self-Determination
This work happens in person. It is not an online course, and it is not a presentation you sit through. The questions are constructed precisely for the organization, institution, or groups in the room, the outcomes are named and met before the day is done, and participation is the method. People work through the framework against their own systems; their governance, their authority, their responsibilities - and leave with something that continues past the day.
The River as Teacher
Certificate in Systemic Disruption Through Indigenous Worldview
The Land As Teacher
Certificate of Cultural Land-Based Curriculum Design and Development
One Dish, One Spoon Model
Implementing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Self-Determination and Rematriation
Certificates of Achievement
Participants receive a Certificate of Systemic Disruption Through Indigenous Worldview, or of Cultural Land-Based Curriculum Design and Development. If participants have received both certificates they are eligible for the Advanced Certificate in Implementing First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Self-Determination and Rematriation. All Certificates are issued by an Ontario Certified Teacher. In line with self-determination, this is intentionally not accredited by any external body.
One Dish Project was a model framework built on law, carried in public,
and meant to be used - no gate, no gatekeeper. First Nations people, and
everybody else who shows up ready to do it. Non-Indigenous participants: know
what this is, and hold up your end of it. To bring this work to your organization or community:
Email: onedishproject@gmail.com
Resurgence Redefined.
Sewatokwà:tshera' Theatre was established in Kenhtè:ke (Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory) to expand the already flourishing arts community on the territory.
This community program allows Indigenous people to tell our stories on our own land while providing access to professional quality Indigenous-led community theatre.
Our inaugural production was Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor.
Our current production is Sir John A. and Dr. O by Jerry Prager.
Auditions: November 4, 7:30-9:00 PM and November 8, 1:00-3:00 PM.
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Cottagers and Indians by Drew Hayden Taylor
Produced by Sewatokwà:tshera' Theatre, Directed by Sha'telayèn:ton
Professional Development, Research, and Public Speaking
Research, networking, and building the work is ongoing. Education and policy reform don't happen without continued engagement, implementation, and improvement of the work you do. By travelling to hear the words of Elders, Youth, Knowledge Keepers, Leaders, and Indigenous Peoples from Nations across Turtle Island and overseas I am able to use their wisdom and knowledge to inform my work.
Past Presentations:
The River as Teacher (AERF, Winnipeg)
One Dish One Spoon Self-Determination Framework (AFN, Hamilton)
Next Presentation:
The Land as Teacher (Indspire, National Gathering; Winnipeg)
