Nimkii Aazhibikong (Pronounced “Nim-key Awe-zhi-bick-co-ng) means Thunder Mountain.
We are a small “language community” of like minded Indigenous individuals who carry the common goal of Anishinaabemowin language revitalization combined with land based practices and the arts. We came together to start to build a year round language camp that was based on traditional Anishinaabeg knowledge and sustainable living practices. Because “camp” doesn’t quite describe what we are doing accurately, we like to refer to what we are doing as building a growing language community.
We believe our languages are key to helping the environment because the values, beliefs and the traditional knowledge of how to live in balance with Mother Earth is contained within our language.
So far at Nimkii Aazhibikong there have been several language or land-based events hosted including: language lessons in person and on-line, hide tanning workshops, culture camps, contemporary arts workshops, beading/quill-working workshops, medicine and plant harvesting, establishments of gardens, etc.
This website has been put together primarily to provide a place for our language recordings and resources to be accessible to the public for free. They are also available on itunes and Spotify and as MP3 downloads. Please see https://nimkiiaazhibikong.com/language-resources/