HHL x Ojibway Nature Centre: Our Ojibway Nature Centre Colouring Book

Download Here: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/hhl_pubs/3/

On April 22nd, 2022 HHL launched our Ojibway Nature Centre Colouring Book illustrated by Mariah Alexander - Baashkooniingad Kwe, which means “buds on the tree beginning to open woman” -, an Indigenous artist from Bkejwanong.

This project was a partnership between the Ojibway Nature Centre and HHL’s Ode’imin circle; to re-introduce Indigenous knowledge and art to the Ojibway Nature Centre. Through this colouring book, Mariah’s art, and the inclusion of Anishinaabe words, HHL hopes this colouring book will help fill the gap in Indigenous Knowledge, and introduce a new generation to the rich Indigenous culture found in Windsor. 

Here are some words from the Artist, Mariah Alexander: 

Filmed by Mariah Alexander. Edited by Shayenna Nolan

You can see Mariah speak by checking out the video on our Instagram @healthyheadwaterslab, Twitter @streamecology, or Facebook @Healthy Headwaters Lab.

The colouring book is currently available for download in its full form or as individual sheets on HHL’s Open Access Pubs page. Donations to the Artist are welcome; a QR code is included on the first page of each individual sheet or on the final page of the full colouring book that links to Mariah’s PayPal. 

HHL would like to say Miigwetch to everyone who made this project possible: Mariah Alexander, our incredible artist, Dr. Jennifer Willet of INCUBATOR Art Lab, Karen Ceder and the Ojibway Nature Centre, Monty McGahey II who’s book Bkejwanong Dbaajmowinan: Stories of Where the Waters Divide aided in translation of the Ojibwe words, and the many incredible HHL lab members who worked so hard to put this project together. 

This project was supported by the Seek to Know Nanadagikenim grant from the Centre of Teaching and Learning at the University of Windsor.