{"id":68566,"date":"2021-09-30T14:23:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=68566"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:32:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:32:52","slug":"ni-maajitaamin-lets-get-started-the-ottawa-hospital-holds-ceremony-to-honour-land-and-thank-all-indigenous-peoples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/newsroom\/ni-maajitaamin-lets-get-started-the-ottawa-hospital-holds-ceremony-to-honour-land-and-thank-all-indigenous-peoples\/","title":{"rendered":"Ni-Maajitaamin \/ Let\u2019s get started: The Ottawa Hospital holds ceremony to honour land and thank all Indigenous Peoples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sept. 29, 2021 \u2013 OTTAWA \u2013<\/strong> To mark Canada\u2019s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) will hold a ceremony at the site of its new campus to honour the land and respectfully offer thanks for the contributions, culture and traditional knowledge of all Indigenous Peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TOH\u2019s new campus, like our existing campuses at the General, Civic and Riverside will be built on traditional and unceded Algonquin territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sept. 30 ceremony will be led by Fred MacGregor, an Algonquin Anishinabe traditional teacher and knowledge keeper from the community of Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg near Maniwaki Quebec.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Event detail<\/strong>s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>When: Thursday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m.<\/li><li>Where: Maple Drive at Birch Drive, Ottawa, ON<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The event will include performances by:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>David White Deer Charette, an Ojibway two spirit artist from Wikwemikong First Nation in Ontario. He grew up in Ottawa and has been singing and drumming since he was 12.<\/li><li>Tricia Monague, an Ojibway Jingle dress dancer from Beausoleil First Nations who has been dancing with medicine in the Ottawa area for the past 7 years.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Board of Governors&nbsp;is committed to&nbsp;creating a health-care institution that embraces diversity in all its forms and&nbsp;progresses steadily along the journey to reconciliation,\u201d&nbsp;said Katherine Cotton, Chair of The Ottawa Hospital\u2019s Board of Governors. \u201cOur journey has been slow,&nbsp;but we are committed to engaging, listening and learning from Indigenous communities as we build the future of health-care right here in our city for generations to come.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A sign to acknowledge that The Ottawa Hospital is on unceded and traditional Algonquin land has been erected on the new campus, on Carling Ave. across from Champagne Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sign features <em>Algonquin Ancestral Medicinal Knowledge \u2013 Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter Series,<\/em> original artwork by Algonquin artists Simon Brascoup\u00e9 and Mairi Brascoup\u00e9, depicting traditional medicines through the seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In developing the project for the new hospital, TOH will work closely with a newly formed Indigenous Peoples Advisory Circle, representing First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuk leaders and advisors, to provide guidance on creating spaces that are safe and respectful for people of all cultures, at its new campus, as well as its existing facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cImagine a hospital that reflects the contributions, values and beliefs of first peoples, where patients can enhance their care with traditional medicines and practices,\u201d said Marion Crowe, a proud member of the Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan and the first Indigenous person to be appointed to TOH\u2019s Board of Governors. \u201cWe have an opportunity to weave the unique and diverse needs of First Nations, Inuit and M\u00e9tis communities into the planning and construction of the new hospital development.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sept. 29, 2021 \u2013 OTTAWA \u2013 To mark Canada\u2019s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, The Ottawa Hospital (TOH) will hold a ceremony at the site of its new campus to honour the land and respectfully offer thanks for the contributions, culture and traditional knowledge of all Indigenous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsroom"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}