Location: Moraviantown, ON

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Dates: May 31-June 6, 2025

 

Niizh Manidook hide camp is for 2SLGBTQQIPAA+ youth (ages 16-29) and Two-Spirit community!

 

Registration closes at 11:59 pm April 25, 2025.

Camp will include:
-Free Camping on site 
-3 meals per day (breakfast, lunch, dinner served on site)

IS THIS SPACE FOR ME?

Our Hide Camp is for 2SLGBTQQIPAA Indigenous youth and community.

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2SLGBTQQIPAA stands for; Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Pansexual, Androgynous, Asexual.

WHAT TO EXPECT?
Join us in working together on collective deer hides over 6 days with Two Spirit / Indigiqueer mentors and a pro hide tanning Elder and dear friend of NMHC.

 

Our collective goal is to complete several hides to final smoke! Participants will learn about the foundations of traditional brain tanning/ smoke tanning, and rawhide making. 

 

Our hide camp is entirely outdoors. We will be working outside in the elements. There is one indoor bathroom with a sink, a couple outhouses and a private outdoor shower. 

PLEASE NOTE:
Our 2025 hide camp prioritizes Trans (Non-binary)/Two Spirit/ Indigiqueer/ 2SLGBTQQIPAA+ Indigenous youth with room for a few adults

 

Priority will be given to folks from Moraviantown, Aamjiwnaang, Walpole, Chippewas of the Thames, Kettle and Stoney Point , Sarnia, London, Windsor, Chatham, Chatham-Kent County, Lambton County, Middlesex County, Essex County, Elgin County.