odenaansan

A little place where my heart is

We are helping to restore heart to communities by providing the tools for cultural transformation at a community level and through communal efforts.

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Welcome to

odenaansan

In the time of the seventh fire there will arise new people looking for what has been lost. We are the new people and what we seek is odenaasan. Odenaansan means a village or the little place where my heart is. In essence we are seeking to restore heart to the community. Through the Odenaansan Project, we want to help restore heart to communities by providing the tools for cultural transformation at a community level and through communal efforts.
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Our Entities

Integrated Community Development

The Integrated Community Development (ICD) Approach is an Indigenous approach to community development and has been described as a “framework for social innovation” by Anishinaabe “elder” Wendy Phillips.

The Trust Fund - Odenaansan Dakonan

This project supports the financial necessity of the ICD project by holding the funds from donations and grants awarded to the entities in the ICD project in addition to its primary function, to hold the shares in the various social enterprises ..

Sustainable Engineering

This is the corporate body charged with the creation of the other entities required by the ICD approach. The Unified Utility approach creates sustainable infrastructures in communities with the interest of preservation of natural elements..

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What we do

The Odenaansan project supports communities both indigenous and non in restoring Minobimaadzwin (the good life) for all our relations. It utilizes the ICD approach to create sustainable economic regimes in communities to provide infrastructure for cultural transformation at the community level.
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