American Indian Family Center

[Virtual Event] AIFC: Khunsi Onikan - Well-Anon (Native American Al-Anon) Meeting
2022-10-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-27 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Chicago)
Open to anyone wanting to learn to have healthy boundaries and healthy relationships with the other addicts/alcoholics in their lives.
Join us every Tuesday at 7 PM CST for help and hope.
Suppose you have a loved one dealing with addiction. In that case, our Khunsi Onikan Program sponsors these weekly Native American culturally-based, one-hour meetings to help you establish healthy boundaries and relationships.
Join the meeting here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89255163167?pwd=[REDACTED]

AIFC - Men's Support & Smudge Group
2022-10-24 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-10 18:00 - 20:00 | Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States
Join American Indian Family Center’s Father & Men’s Outreach Specialist, Rich Antell, every other Monday for an in-person men’s support and smudge group.
It will be a potluck at Indigenous Roots in Saint Paul, MN, so please bring a dish to share if you can!
Don’t miss this chance to gather with other American Indian men to explore your identity, participate in your culture, and support each other.

Church of Gichitwaa Kateri - Pumpkin and Coat Giveaway
2022-10-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Church of Gichitwaa Kateri, 3045 Park Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55407-1517, United States

Family Fun Night
2022-10-21 17:00 - 20:00 | Minneapolis American Indian Center (MAIC), 1530 E Franklin Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

American Indian OIC (AIOIC) - Job Fair
2022-10-21 10:00 - 12:30 | American Indian OIC (AIOIC), 1845 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

[Virtual Event] AIFC: Khunsi Onikan - Wellbriety/Medicine Wheel 12 Steps Meeting
2022-10-20 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-06 19:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-29 19:00 - 20:00
Open to anyone wanting to work on recovery from any addiction.
Every Thursday at 7 pm CST, AIFC’s Khunsi Onikan program will sponsor a culturally based recovery support Wellbriety/Medicine Wheel 12-step meeting for the community; anyone wanting to work on recovery from any addictions is welcome to attend.
No need to register in advance.
Click here to join the meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89255163167?pwd=[REDACTED]

Native American Community Clinic (NACC) - Indigenous Pink Day
2022-10-20 12:00 | Native Amercian Community Clinic (NACC), 1213 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States

AIFC - Ombi'ayaa Anishinaabe-Ininiiwug (Rise Up Original Men) - Imnizaska Family Drum
2022-10-19 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-12 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-05 18:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Center, 788 East 7th Street, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States
Ombi’ayaa Anishinaabe-Ininiiwug (Rise Up Original Men) invites the men’s support and smudge group participants and their families interested in learning and sharing to share a meal and practice learning songs.
Location may vary, call (651) 560-9700 for the exact location.
Elders Lodge or Indigenous Roots – 788 E. 7th St. Saint Paul, MN
This drum group has been created to bring families together to learn and share the drum.
It is a beautiful and vital component of the American Indian/Native American/Indigenous culture.

AIFC - Elders Advisory Council (EAC) - Traditional Family Game Night
2022-10-19 16:00 - 21:00 | East Side Neighborhood Services, 1700 NE 2nd Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55413, United States
American Indian Family Center’s Elders Advisory Council (EAC) invites you and your families to Traditional Family Game Night. Deb Northrup from the Fond du Lac Band will be helping us facilitate the Dish Game in East Side Neighborhood Services’ Gym.
Dinner: 5:00 PM. Please bring a dish to pass if you can for the feast.
Please call (612) 394.9328 for more information.
Off-street parking is available.

AIFC – [Hybrid Event] Men’s Smudge & Support Group
2022-10-17 18:00 - 21:00, 2022-10-03 18:00 - 21:00
Join American Indian Family Center’s Father & Men’s Outreach Specialist, Rich Antell, every other Monday for a virtual men’s smudge and support group.

Don’t miss this chance to gather with other American Indian men to explore your identity, participate in your culture, and support each other.

Register here: https://bit.ly/3LuWlWK

AIFC - Women's Sweat
2022-10-14 17:00 | Belwin Conservancy, 1553 Stagecoach Trail South, Afton, MN, 55001, United States
Artwork credit: The Lodge by Sharifah

Please plan to be there at 5 PM so we can enter the lodge right at 6 PM.
A light meal will also be shared afterward. Please feel free to bring food to share, but it isn’t required.
Facilitated by Sharyl Whitehawk every first Friday of the month; please call to verify.

What to bring and wear: a loose-fitting dress, shorts/skirt for inside the lodge, along with a loose-fitting shirt, a change of clothes for after, a towel, drinking water, and a dish to share later (optional). A modest t-shirt or top is also acceptable upon wearing a long skirt or shorts.
AIFC’s Women’s Sweats are regularly scheduled. If you are interested in attending a regularly scheduled sweat or have questions, please get in touch with Sharyl Whitehawk at (651) 505-6838, (719) 322-4447, or Sharyl.Whitehawk@aifcmn.org.
Miigwech!
Directions to the sweat lodge: Turn left into the drive, and then open the gate (it’s not locked but looks like it is) and drive through, staying to the right at 2 forks until you go up a small hill where the sweat lodge and a parking area is.

Sweat lodge teachings:
A sweat lodge is a tool for healing everything that a person wants healing for. It begins with a firepit where your intentions for the sweat are given with tobacco. The firepit represents the Creator, whereas the fire has the power of transformation. So, it holds the stones, heating them and getting them ready for healing work. The path to the lodge is a lifetime of unresolved issues that you carry with you. As you enter the Eastern doorway you announce yourself by Spirit Name and clan. If you do not have them, just use your English name. You sit where the person pouring assigns you.
In most cases, the women come in first, and then the men. The stones are brought in by a firekeeper who brings in the stones with the person who is pouring guidance. The lodge’s people are reconnected to their first mother, the Earth. The sweat lodge and the firepit in the lodge are dome-shaped and represent the womb and have the power of rebirth. The stones once brought in become grandmothers and grandfathers who heard the intentions and come in to help. The doorway is closed, and the four directions are honored and asked to assist. It can be hot when water is added to the grandmothers and grandfathers. Steam is the conductor of transformation. The steam pulls out the trapped issues or problems that the person is hanging onto and releases them so that healing can happen. The songs, prayers, and medicines shared in the lodge help people let go of their resistance.
The time in the sweat lodge varies as well as the number of stones used. It can be short as an hour or up to 2 hours long. It can have 7 up to 42 stones. It can be done in any part of the day. A sweat lodge is a healing tool that has been passed down for generations and is changing with the times.

AIFC Waaban Ogimaawag - Full Moon Ceremony
2022-10-12 17:30 | Belwin Conservancy Savanna Center, 795 Indian Trail South, Afton, MN, 55001, United States
Boozhoo! Please join AIFC’s Waaban Ogimaawag (Tomorrow’s Leaders) as we hold a ceremony for Nookomis Giizis (Grandmother Moon)!

We invite relatives who receive (and/or have ceased) their monthly menstrual cycle to join us for a Full Moon Ceremony on Wednesday, October 12, 2022, at 5:30 PM at Belwin Conservancy Creative Center (795 Indian Trail South, Afton, MN 55001).

+ Please wear a mask and if you have tested positive for COVID or are feeling unwell, please wait until a future Full Moon Ceremony to attend

+ Please bring a ceremonial/long skirt, hair bundle, watecha (containers for leftover food), a face mask, weather-appropriate attire, a copper cup, a small bowl, and a spoon. We will provide a few extras just in case.

+ We will feast together potluck style, so please bring a dish to share if you can!

For registration and questions, contact Felicia Galvan, Youth Engagement Specialist at Felicia.Galvan@aifcmn.org or (651) 504-5969.

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Saint Paul Indigenous Peoples' Day Community Celebration
2022-10-10 10:00 | MN

Midtown Global Market - Indigenous Peoples Day
2022-10-09 12:00 - 14:00 | Midtown Global Market, 920 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States

Niniijaanis One of Ones - Indigenous People's Weekend Basketball Expo
2022-10-08 10:00 - 20:00 | Harding High School, 1540 6th Street E, Saint Paul, MN, 55106, United States

White Earth Nation (Gaa-waabaabiganikaag) - Anishinaabe Inini Camp: Zaka'an Ishkode (Lighting the Fire)
2022-10-08 | MN

IHB - Open Beading with Gewaden Dunkley
2022-10-04 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairview Minnehaha Education Center, 2020 Minnehaha Avenue, Minneapolis, 55404, United States

Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) - Boarding School Community Healing Event (Orange Shirt Day)
2022-09-30 16:00 | Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center (MIWRC), 2300 15th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, United States
