Programs within
Food Sovereignty Programs
Soupbowl Sunday
in collaboration with The Regina Foodbank. Our team gathers on a weekly basis to make and provide our community with a hot meal - our team makes 300 plus meals and hands out in two locations of Regina. Pepsi Park and Victoria Park. We have a goal of making this program fully sustainable by harvesting our meat and growing our own vegetables.
Buffalo Harvest Ceremony
Buffalo Harvest for our program provides the community an opportunity to eat a food source that our ancestors depended on for generations. As Indigenous people our connect to the buffalo has been a vital piece of who we are. Together, We are reclaiming this practice for our people to help work against food insecurity.
These harvests also provide the opportunity for our Indigenous youth to participate and experience their cultural practices and lineage.
Community garden project launching spring 2023
Cultural Programming
The Comeback Society will host cultural programs and events within our public space. Working closely with the Ministry of Social Serivces to provide the funding nesseasary to host these programs for Indigenous youth in care. This section will also focus on providing access f0r community members to get involved.
- -Youth focused workshops, Indigneous Kin at all levels focused
- Ribbon Skirt Workshops, Ribbon Shirt workshops, regalia making workshops, beading workshops, earrings, lanyards
- Host ceremonies, sweat lodges, healing circles etc..
- Access to powwows, raindances, sundances etc..
- Hyde Tanning workshops
- Medicine walks and harvesting workshops
Cultural Collaborations
Cultural Collaborators
This is where the comeback works within other organizations to provide cultural programming
to Indigenous youth within those agencies and provide support to their staff throughout the programming. This program is based in reconciliation and we are careful in who we are working with. Kinship relationships are to be built and maintained while we navigate those spaces and the employees with the collective responsibility of reconciliation.
The programms are similar to our Cultural programming, however the difference is we would provide this programming for the youth/staff of the collaboration agency.
-Ribbon Skirt making, Ribbon shirt making, moss bags, quill work,
-Traditional medicines, harvesting and utilizing
-Ceremonial protocol workshops
-Cleaning and harvesting medicine workshops
- All of above programming aswell.
Land Base Education
The Pekiwewin (Cree for coming home) Program is an initiative TCS is delivering in partnership with The Treaty Land Sharing Network for land access to offer learning opportunities on and with the land. Ideally, TCS will build capacity to host week-long camps for Indigenous youth-in-care as well as create longer land engagement opportunities for the TCS community and other organizations to attend. Land access is critical infrastructure for TCS to realize its mission and vision.
Key Activities:
• Workshops: hide preparation and tanning, medicine walks/harvesting, chopping wood• Skills: hunting, fishing, trapping, harvesting and dressing animals, survival• Teachings: relationship to the land, Indigenous rights, ceremonies and protocols for and with the land
Education and Training
"Coming back to the Truth"
2- day Culturally Sensitive Training Course targeted for non-profits, Businesses and Corporations who are committed to un-learning and re-learning the truth of Canada's History with a focus of Reconciliation and Relationship building.
This two day interactive course is jammed pack with knowledge, the instructors provide a safe space to ask questions. Certificates given out at the end for the participants who complete the training.
This course was created by academics, community leaders and elders.
The training will include and not be limited to the following:
-History of Canada
- Treaty Education
- Relationship building with Indigenous Kin
- Importance of Land acknowledgements
- The importance of Revitalization and connect to the land
100% of course cost goes back into our community to provide cultural programming to our Indigenous kin.