Wanuskewin Reflective Essay

Taking a trip outside of the city limits to an Aboriginal park called Wanuskewin was a fulfilling, rewarding and educational experience. As a class volunteers fieldtrip we were welcomed in with open arms to participate in learning and helping with the gardens on the reserved area. These were not your typical backyard gardens, or the one you help your grandma harvest, but a spiritual, tradition, and particular garden. We learned a great deal of the reasoning’s behind the structure of them, the traditional plants grown, and the function regarding the garden. Wanuskewin respects and represents the Indigenous way of life by following the tradition of the circle and how everything is connected and need balance within the land.

Wanuskewin was my first trip on a heritage park, and as to suspect it was a great learning experience. As I entered the building, it was warm, welcoming and filled with not only traditional Indigenous items such as buffalos, paintings, teepees, but also filled with children. These children, of all

The beans and corn were grown together sharing a pile of soil, this was meant to help feed the corn to give more nutrients to them. Among the beans and corn grew the squash, the squash was grown in ways that it could spread among the ground between the bean and corn. This was again was to help with the growth and soil quality to show that when put together; it makes one another stronger and healthier. When addressing growing techniques that that Indigenous people used, there was different methods such as growing the corn and beans together in one circle spot separated, and having the corn and beans grown in a line with the beans grown between the corn. The line method was used when growing harvest for large amounts of people, because you were able to plants more in smaller