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Kwe kwe, Greetings from Kokomville Academy

Kokomville Academy is a small School situated within the Wild life Reserve of La Verendrye in the Province of Quebec, Canada. A blossoming private School, The spirit of Kokomville Academy emerges a study to learn the traditional Educational values of a family base within the boreal forest of North America...the knowledge and skills transmitted by the Late Dr. Kokom Lena Jerome Nottaway cc. to coexist in the Natural Environment…

The inspirational directive of Kokomville Academia conceptualizes its objectives and goals to promote the understanding of Nature ...pathways to participate with the available resources, accommodate a livelihood, its life requirements prompted from Nature's creation...

.....Welcome, Pidigek!.....

Jacob Wawatie: Founder and Director of Kokomville Academy

Thinking of coming up for the gathering happening this month?
(find more activity details below!)

Directions to Kokomville:

From Ottawa: Take 5 North out of the city. This will turn into 105. Continue following 105, passing though Makiwaki, until you reach Grand Remous. At Grand Remous, Turn left onto 117, heading North. (continue below as from Grand Remous...)

From Montreal: Take 15 North out of the city This will turn into 117 North. Continue following 117 passing though Grand Remous.

From Grand Remous: Continue North on 117. You will soon enter Reserve Faunique de La Verendrye. Continue North , passing Le Domain, Lac Rapid and finally Lac Camatose. About 1 kilometer after Lac Camatose you will see a small truck pull off area. This is nearly at the 376 km marker. Immediately after the pull off you will see a dirt road on the right marked 29 East. Turn onto the road.

Travel on 29 East aproximately 25 km to the 137 km maker. Here the road splits. You will see many signs. Turn left and continue another 5 km to the 142 km maker. Just after, you will see the entrance to Kokomville on the right. Turn in Kokomville is just down the hill !

From Val D'or: Head South on 117 passing Lac Simon, Lac Dozois, and D'or Val. Just before the 376 km marker and rest area, you will see a dirt road, 29 East, on the left. Turn left onto this road and follow the direction just above.

Coming from the direction of Montreal, Ottawa, or Val D'or ...

Getting to Kokomville.....

For further infomation please contact Benoit Noel de Tilley (Waba Moku) at 819-777-1367

Mid Summer Gathering - August 4-17,2008

What is the purpose?

The Mid Summer Gathering is in the spirit to awaken “The Spirit of Mother Nature” laid out on the land we walk upon.

To acknowledge the skills and wisdom of the ancestors to the blessing of “Mother Earth”

To recount the blessing laid out on “Turtle Island” cared by Mother Earth

To partake and taste the fruit of the land called “Home” by the creatures of Mother Earth.

Where is this happening?
Kokomville, Quebec, Within the Traditional Sovereign Algonquin Territory of a family situated within the La Verendrye Wild Life Reserve, Quebec, Canada. (see maps above)

When will it be done?
August 4 to August 17, 2008

What will be happening?

Between August 4 and August 18 2008, the guests are invited:
To help collect the berries laid out on the land.
To help and participate in the hunts.
To help and collect the eatable of the waters.
To experience the connection to Mother Earth.

In preparation for the Thanksgiving Feast of “Mother Earth’s Natural Gifts” the fruits blessed by the hand of the Creator on the 16 of August 2008

Special Healing Events:

Sunrise Ceremony
Sweat Lodge
Elder Circle
Men Circle
Women Circle
Youth Circle
Story telling Circle

Activities:
The guests and participants will be invited to actively partake in the preparation to instill a community setting to walking in pace with Nature

From gathering the resources with members of the Algonquin Nation living off the land to writing of the recipes to fill the menus of the big day of the feast.

With Members of the Algonquin Nation, They will demonstrate their traditional skills in their survival on the land and with contemporary skills acquired with modern technology in their survival of their cultural genetics.

Where are we going to stay?
Minimal number of lodging available for Elders (house and wigwams)
(Tarps and plastic are welcome to make more wigwams for guests)
Requesting guests and participants to bring camping gear.
Camping sites available

What are we eating?
The people, participants and guests are welcome to contribute fruits and vegetables for the community eatery. The people, participants and guests are welcome to contribute their personal recipes with resources of the land to the Community Eatery. And depending on the skills of the hunters, fishermen, and gatherers we should gain a pound or two of the resources available on the land.

What is the mid summer feast for?
The mid summer feast is a way to get thanks to the creator by preparing its blessing to the best of one can give for all to rejoice. Giving way to acknowledge the beneficial resource transmitted by the whisper of the ancestors that live off the land. The melody of a renewal of a cultural connection to the land of mother earth.

Objectives and Goals of the Gathering:
The objectives and goals of the gathering is to guide interested guests and participants to learn about the land and its resources available to people. To help learn the cultural entity of people living off the resources and the way and granted by the creator.

Contributions and Donations:
The following items are requested to facilitate of building shelters and lodge to be used during the duration of the workshop. The plastic and tarps of fair dimension are needed to build several lodges around the community of Kokomville to accommodate healing session and discussions circles.

Semi-heavy to heavy plastic: Dimesnsion: 6meters by 100 meters
6 Tarps: dimension 6 meters by 8 meters
Hay bail string to build the skeleton of the wigwam

A brief history of Komomvile Workshops and Conferences
	A series of workshops and presentations to different audiences were set out to help structure and elaborate the foundation of Kokomville Academy. The agenda of Kokomville Academy devotes its energy to the social harmonization depicted in documentation of the environment, amongst other aspects of nature.
Kokomville Academy is an ongoing project that accentuates the traditional educational values revealing a setting of the Natural World. The project also includes working with scientific data and other resources available in the public domain. It illustrates a pathway for individuals to prosper within a social context relying on natural resource available from the land. The curriculum is based to elaborate avenues of self reliance within the contemporary setting.		Kokomville Academy is a foundation striving to compile documentation, distinguishing the Wisdom of Nature. Guided by the wisdom of the Elders, Jacob Wawatie, founder of Kokomville Academy, elaborates an educational structure base from the cultural background of the Algonquin Nation... to project a vision of integrity within the environment perceived as "Home" by a culture derived from Nature. --- Jake/Mohegan

This site will continue to be expanded with the goal of providing online multimedia presentations, as well as a database for searching our library file archives.

We look forward to your return as you watch the site evolve.

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