
Citizenship is a political and legal concept that profoundly impacts individuals and families’ sense of identity and belonging…a formal Citizenship Code [can] either serve to further divide the community or to bring the community back together. The open and welcoming working group meetings and these Elder and youth directed activities…centred and embodied the grounded and inclusive nature of belonging, of wahkohtowin (all our relationships) and miyo-wichetowin (creating good relations) in the AWN community. These principles and practices remain the core of AWN’s on-going citizenship work.
Co-Leads, Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge,
University of Alberta, December, 2020.