WHO WE ARE: ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND

Piikani Lodge is guided by Piikani leadership and the values of the community. Piikani Lodge’s development goals for the community consider cohabitation for multiple species and ‘ini-yimm’ or respect for the natural world. Our team relies upon the process of engagement through ‘li-ta-mii-pa-ta-pi-yoip’ or positive interaction with a foci of wellbeing within an intentional diversity of community members. Our work supports landscapes for ‘tsi-ksi-ka-ta-pi-wa-tsin’ or Blackfeet ways of ‘place knowing’. Our work never fails to consider ‘a’si-ta-pi’ or embedded youth mentorship and community capacity building thereby passing Piikani “ways of being” and stewardship of land and biosystems down to our next generations in the best way we can.