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The Circle of All Nations (CAN)
is the unfunded informal global eco community founded by the late Indigenous Elder William Commanda, Algonquin of the Ottawa River Watershed, to inspire and advance respect for Mother Earth, plants and animals, and to promote racial harmony and peacebuilding. I met Grandfather Commanda twenty years ago and have supported his work since then; and I continue to maintain and coordinate this work entirely pro bono.
CAN colleagues will be pleased to know that our doctoral thesis entitled "Ginawaydaganuc and the Circle of All Nations: The Remarkable Environmental Legacy of Elder William Commanda" was completed successfully this winter. Already a recipient of two honourary doctoral degrees, and honoured with appointment as Officer of the Order of Canada, Wolf Project, Harmony, Lifetime Aboriginal Achievement, Master Canoe Builder and countless other awards, our "Kindergarten Dropout" is now entrenched in the western academy; our thesis explores his Indigenous ideology, Circle of All Nations bridge building work, canoe epistemology, and leadership and outreach in prisons and in and social justice and environmental work. Our thesis is developed around the Circle of All Nations logo and it highlights the contribution of our book (Thumbadoo), our canoe teaching documentary "Good Enough for Two" (Pouyanne), NFB documentary "Ojigkwanong" (Ouimet) and our CAN team (you!) to the study and continued relevance and emergence of his critically important earth-based knowledge and wisdom.
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Grandfather William Commanda holding up a t-shirt with the Circle of All Nation's logo |
This teaching logo has been featured on our CAN t-shirts since 1998, when it was presented at our first Peace event in the National Capital Region. Well, twenty years later, our
t-shirts are available again!
Check out our Circle of All Nations (CAN) products at Turtle Lodge Trading Post. All funds are dedicated to CAN TEACH work!
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Good Enough For Two Bilingual DVD (Valerie Pouyanne) World renowned canoe maker William Commanda launches renewed interest in the birch bark canoe and Indigenous teachings with the construction of his very last birch bark canoe at the age of 92.
Learn about Grandfather William's vision for
www.Asinabka.com, the sacred site at the Chaudiere Falls/Victoria Island in the heart of the Ottawa River Watershed and what you can do to help save and restore it. For more information on CAN archival reports, visit
www.circleofallnations.ca. Find us on Facebook (Circle of All Nations, William Commanda, William Commanda Legacy Asinabka, Romola Vasantha Thumbadoo, Romola's Nature CAN TEACH), reach us at
circleofallnations@sympatico.ca, and
sign up for our periodic emails.
JOIN US FOR THE CIRCLE OF ALL NATIONS
SPRING EQUINOX EVENT
MARCH 24, 2018
506 Stratas Court, Kanata, ON K2L 3K7
Circle of All Nations Conversation - Theme Education - 2 pm
Circle of All Nations Socialization and Supper - Just show up!
Thank You, Karen!
Finally, Circle of All Nations would like to take this opportunity to
thank Karen Bisson and Turtle Lodge Trading Post for super support over the years. Karen did the graphic design work on our "Learning from a Kindergarten Dropout" book and countless other CAN reports, has generously hosted and maintained our
www.Asinabka.com website since its inception, and enables us to reach
you with our educational and healing materials through
Turtle Lodge Trading Post.
Megwetch Karen!
