The Algonquin Foods Program (Omàmìwininì Mìdjiman Ijichigewin)

The Algonquin Foods Program (Omàmìwininì Mìdjiman Ijichigewin) began in 2023, and is designed to be a long-term program that is an AOPFN-controlled process of communication and confidence building, that will provide AOPFN members with reliable, accurate, and trusted information about the mìdjiman (foods), akì (lands), and nibì (waters) in which they/we rely on to feed their/our Dodemag (families) and communities. 

In combination with the Neyagada Wabandangaki Guardian Program (NWGP), the AFP is an important part of an overall process of AOPFN taking more control over stewardship of our lands and resources. 

The goal of both programs is to make sure that we promote a clean and natural environment, and that our members can trust the safety of kàkonewin (harvesting) from those lands and waters. 

Our processes are driven by the need to change messaging, and messengers used to communicate monitoring results and time-sensitive news to AOPFN members; from currently being driven by government & industry, to being guided by AOPFN members & staff in a position of trust within our tanakì (community).