LAM Receives Teachings from Allen Sutherland
26/09/2025
Legal Aid Manitoba invited Allen Sutherland, also known by his spirit name White Spotted Horse (Waabishki Mazinazoot Michtaatim) as our guest speaker on September 25, 2025 at 287 Broadway. The talk was on zoom as well for those unable to attend in person. His talk was on Indigenous worldviews including ceremonies, traditions and care taker teachings.
Allen is an Anishinaabe Traditional Knowledge Keeper, Historian, and Healer and Nation Builder and is from Skownan First Nation in Treaty 2 Territory. He is a member of the Lynx Clan and runs White Spotted Horse, Inc. and Ginew Healing Lodge which offers training on Anishinaabe culture and history. Sutherland is well known for his Indigenous historical timeline posters and for bridging traditional Anishinaabek knowledge with modern realities to promote reconciliation and understanding. With over 30 years of experience working in government roles and grassroots community work, bridging traditional and contemporary worlds, staff learned about teachings and several ceremonies and their significance to the Anishinaabe way of life on the prairies.
Before addressing the group, Jane Harrington from the Regency CLC and member of our in-house Indigenous Reconciliation Committee, offered a gift of tobacco and land acknowledgement. Staff received indigenous knowledge on Anishinaabe culture and history dispelling myths prevalent in society. With his very skillful worldview understanding, staff gained new knowledge to help build greater fluency on culture and history and on the land traditions. The attendees learned about the four kingdoms such as the four legged, flying creatures, plants, water kingdom known as Traditional Ecological Knowledge TEK.
