Indigenous centre uses storytelling to honour history – The Globe and Mail

A new Indigenous educational, cultural and historical centre in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., will teach current and future generations about the area’s past while supporting truth-telling, healing and reconciliation.

Taking direction from the land, and from Indigenous Elders, the Makwa Waakaa’igan Indigenous Centre of Cultural Excellence is a monument representing the land’s past, present and future.

“This project is about storytelling,” says Carol Phillips, partner at Moriyama Teshima Architects, the property’s lead architect who co-created its vision alongside the Hamilton-based and Anishinaabeg-owned-and-operated, Smoke Architecture. “It’s about telling the story of what happened here and telling the future story of possibility.”