I enjoy checking back in to this site after a while and find that I am always ordering those beautiful bookmarks.  They are so eye catching and disperse those powerful messages.

I am proud to say that I am witnessing the men walking together within this community to promote the white ribbon campaign. They will be at a garden this Saturday promoting men as fathers teaching their sons about nurturing by planting a sunflower seed.

Congrats Pete, Peter, James and Stewart!-You are all Kind Men

what you are doing here is so necessary today.  we just had our take back the night and sisters in spirit march and while so many women get involved in these intiatives, so many more men could step up and join them.

continue your good work and chi-miigwetch!

This past week I had attended the training for I am A Kind Man, What a great initiative I look forward to facilitating a workshop to bring awareness to our men. I like to say Chi meegwetch to Lance and Gerty for a wonderful job in training the trainers.

I am truely humlbled and happy to be part of the  Kizhaay Anishinaabe Niin Initiative. The gifts we recieve from Creator is a life long learning and this is a training that has helped me to add knowledge to my life. Miigwetch Gertie and Lance ! Elders Jake&Jane , Pauline and Ray. They helped alot to connect with the knowledge and to create that comfortable setting for alll to learn. Truely felt we was one mind with the same goal. Naahaw Miiwi 

I just completed the training to become a kind Anishinaabe facilitator and was glad to meet the 3 OFIFC staff, the 4 Elders and 36 ot. her participants. 

We need to support our people to stop violence against nish women

A much needed Initiative

Great to see lots of Native websites!  Us here is Red are in dire need of resources...I know of a few ppl who travel here or live here who try to get youth and ppl who want to learn more of the traditional ways to get them more involved. But I wish to see more and learn more myself.

I really enjoyed the website...I would like to use some of this material for a men's group that will be starting very soon at the Indian Friendship Centre. He is aware of the initiative and the material will help him out too.  

The Native community at Six Nations, Brantford and area will be holding an event open to the community on Dec 3rd during the White Ribbon Campaign of Nov 25 to Dec 6th.

A group of Native males discussed what type of an event could be held considering the timeframe and it was decided by those males to create a banner and a collage committing themselves to live a violent free life and to describe what they believe is a kind man. We will also be holding a sharing circle for the males, youth and men, to publicly speak out against violence against native women.

We will also promote the beginning of a healing circle that will be inclusive and ongoing.

The event will be held on Dec 3, 2008 from 3 - 6 p.m. at the Y Not City Mission on Colborne Street in Brantford.

The males made numerous suggestions of events and the Kizhaay Anishinaabe Niin committee in Brantford has committed to holding further events throughout the year to allow Native males continued opportunities to speak out and make a committment to themselves and those closest to him.

thank you for your time and thank you to OFIFC and most of all thank you to the originators of this initiative 

What a wonderful initiative. Thank you!

Very impressive website.  I am learning alot through the website and I know that I will be able to make use your material with our community.

Thank you for all the hard work going into presenting this.