Parishioners from St. John the Evangelist in Ottawa spent National Indigenous Peoples’ Day in June on a Medicine Walk at Mud Lake led by Louella Tobias, a Cultural Grandmother and Keeper of the Delaware Nation. It was organized by St. John’s Indigenous engagement coordinator Kimberly Johnson of the Cherokee Nation.
“A medicine walk is slow and reflective, an act of respectful noticing, with teachings about plants, animals, and how everything fits together,” the Rev. Canon Gary van der Meer, Incumbent at St. John’s explained, sharing photos on the parish Facebook page.
He thanked Grandmother Louella for a beautiful and memorable experience and shared these photos from the walk in the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg People with Perspective.
St. John, Antrim — Deanery of the Southwest