"the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Governing Board shall adopt the authentic Traditional methods as effective treatment aids
for the enhancement of tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse treatment."
          Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Resolution No. 02-47

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Abiinooji Aki, Cultural Healing Center

Abiinooji Aki, Cultural Healing Center has over 40+ years of experience providing cultural programs to the Native community.
Some of these programs included:

• New Year's Eve Sobriety Pow Wow
• The Anishinaabe Way Conference and Youth Gathering
• The Women's Gathering; an annual gathering of Women to support each other, get away from the everyday demands of being wife, mother, working single parents, and all our other roles that take from our own energy. The Womens Gathering allowed women of all walks of life to gather to support each other, refresh our perspectives, renew our energy and just be Women.
• Healing the Healers; an annual gathering of healers to take time for their own healing and personal work. It included sharing healing knowledge, ceremonies and language.
• The Men's Gathering; a gathering of men  to focus on their work in the community, for their families and to take care of themselves to enable them to do their work. This included ceremonial teachings and protocols, healing work and a time for Men to gather and support each other utilizing our Traditional teachings.
• Death and Dying; a gathering of individuals struggling with grief and loss. A way to heal and navigate the grieving process through our Traditional understanding of life and loss.
• Celebration of Sobriety pow wow that brought singers, dancers, veterans and others to LCO to Celebrate Sobriety in our community. There were traditional speakers, healing talking circles, pipe ceremonies and healing songs to support those in recovery and to pray for those who were still struggling with addictions.
• Healing ceremonies, naming ceremonies, Ojibwa language table, Midewiwin and other ceremonial gatherings.

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Abiinooji Aki provides educational cultural/spiritual presentations to classrooms, agencies and groups in different settings on the aspects of:
Cultural/Spiritual Counseling and treatment philosophies.
AODA cultural issues and roadblocks to recovery.
Positive Native American treatment methods.
Native American family role modeling.
Native American Traditional/Cultural Healing methods and practices.
Traditional teachings on Tobacco, Moon Time, Full Moon Ceremonies, Water, Earth Day presentations, Talking Circles and much more.

HEALING
Abiinooji Aki can be instrumental in locating a Spiritual Healer for any of your medicinal needs.  We provide teachings on the protocols of Naming Ceremonies, Feasts, Give Aways, Talking circles, Family Circles, Sweat lodge and the medicines.

AODA COUNSELING
Abiinooji Aki can be effective in Native American Spiritual/Traditional skill building to the field of Alcohol and Drug Abuse that can help counselors/therapists reach out with understanding to Native Americans afflicted and affected by AODA issues.

SPECIAL GROUPS
Groups can gather together at Abiinooji Aki for 2 to 4 day cultural/spiritual sessions.  Relax in our quiet woodland setting, enjoy traditional foods, listen to stories and songs, and get hands-on experience and time in creating bead work, tobacco bags, skirts, and other crafts.