There is also no cost to use the site, although Cachagee said people often make donations or offer to volunteer. People have used the site to take part in workshops on reconciliation and the child welfare system, to learn about medicinal plants and to just exist in the space, either volunteering or using the time to talk to others or self-reflect. There is no set times for people to go use the lodge, although people do need to contact the group before going. 1:42 Need for second siteĪs volunteers with the lodge started to build it in the spring using items they already owned and that were donated, Cachagee said he was touched by the number of people who wanted to help and who came out to the site for healing. She talks about why the location is special to her. That was when he connected with Jennifer Pfenning, an organic farmer and Wilmot township councillor.ĭuration 1:42 Jennifer Pfenning, an organic farmer and Wilmot township councillor, donated land for Crow Shield Lodge. The lodge was originally in Guelph, but Cachagee wanted to move it into Waterloo region and began to look for a space about a year ago. He lived with a New Order Mennonite family in Waterloo region, attended New Dundee Public School and Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School. Bringing lodge to Waterloo regionĬachagee was taken from his family in the Sixties Scoop, when an estimated 20,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed with white families. Macdonald statue from in front of the Wilmot township offices, to potential burial sites being found at the sites of former residential schools and ongoing conflicts between local and federal governments. That includes local issues, like the removal of the Sir John A. He sees the lodge as a way to give back because he says there's a great need for healing in the community. The lodge is a place for healing, for the community to gather and learn from each other, Cachagee said. Clarence Cachagee created Crow Shield Lodge near New Hamburg, Ont.
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