Join us on Saturday, June 20, 2026
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Richmond Hill Public Library, Central Branch
The afternoon begins with featured speakers, followed by a craft social with refreshments and rawhide painting. We’ll close the day in the medicine garden with traditional drumming, a smudge ceremony, and a giveaway.
Throughout the event, browse our mini market featuring authentic Indigenous handmade products. This event is family-friendly and open to everyone.
Spaces are limited for the craft and giveaway! Register at info@miskwaadesi.com
Featured speakers:
Angela Cimino – Owner of Wiishkobi Home Baked Goods, an Anishinaabe-owned bakery known for award-winning butter tarts, pies, cookies, and cakes. Wiishkobi (weeshko-beh) is the Ojibwe root word for “sweet.” https://www.instagram.com/wiishkobihomebakedgoods/
Christine Myrden – Also known by her Cree name Kathaschose, Christine is a writer and cultural practitioner from northern Saskatchewan now based in Richmond Hill, Ontario. She carries forward her family tradition of birch bark biting, learned from her mother, Sally Milne. https://www.instagram.com/bittenbark/
Bernadette Rombough – a Dene healer and Indigenous woman entrepreneur in York Region. She is the owner of Holistic Healing & Wellness and is originally from the Northwest Territories. Self taught, she shares knowledge and traditional teachings with both Indigenous and non Indigenous communities throughout York Region and the GTA.
ONLINE LEARNING SESSIONS
DWF LIVE: The Four Sacred Medicines
Created for Secret Path Week, this four-part video series is hosted by Sarah Loretta Schuster (Zhaawashkwaa-Giizhigong-Biish-Kwe), an Anishinaabe community organizer, hand drummer, traditional craft artist, and medicine gardener with maternal ties to Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation in Northwestern Ontario.
In this series, Sarah explores the spiritual, cultural, and practical significance of the Four Sacred Medicines — tobacco, sweetgrass, sage, and cedar — through storytelling, teachings, and hands-on demonstrations. She guides viewers through each medicine’s harvesting, preparation, ceremonial protocols, and living practices, while emphasizing relationship, reciprocity, and connection to the Medicine Wheel.
Each episode focuses on one medicine and its teachings: the gratitude and communication of Tobacco, the kindness and healing of Sweetgrass, the cleansing and renewal of Sage, and the protection and respect of Cedar.
Suitable for all ages, WF LIVE: The Four Sacred Medicines offers a meaningful way to take part in Secret Path Week by learning about Anishinaabe culture, connection to the land, and the responsibilities that come with caring for these sacred plants. Watch the replay below.
Watch Episode 1:Tobacco (East)
Watch Episode 2:Sweetgrass (South)
Watch Episode 3:Sage (West)
Watch Episode 4:Cedar (North)
Lesson Plan:English
Plan de leçon:Français
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