What is Biinaagami?
Biinaagami is a multi-year project to engage Canadians and Americans in stewardship of the Great Lakes and the Indigenous Peoples of the lakes.
In Anishinaabemowin, the language of the Anishinaabek Peoples, “Biinaagami” can be interpreted as “clean water.” The name was a gift to the project and speaks to “Our shared responsibility to the Great Lakes.”
Biinaagami is a powerful and change-provoking multi-year program to engage and activate national and international audiences in education, conservation, restoration, protection, and celebration of the greater Great Lakes.
Bringing together Indigenous leaders, conservationists, Canadian Geographic, and documentary film producers, Biinaagami is a program that connects people from across the Great Lakes watershed. Generously supported by RBC, Biinaagami will use immersive cutting edge storytelling and educational materials, a digital portal, community engagement, documentary films, museum exhibits and events.
Executive Project Partners
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society is among Canada’s largest bilingual education organizations in the not-for-profit sector. Founded in 1929, the Society’s mission is to make Canada better known to Canadians and to the world. The Society is a content creator and curator — communicating with Canadians through print, digital and social media, including its flagship magazine Canadian Geographic and its educational arm, Can Geo Education. Increasingly the Society is working in partnership with the public, private and not-for-profit sectors to fulfill its mission of generating awareness, understanding and knowledge of Canada.
Swim Drink Fish
Swim Drink Fish is a nonprofit organization that has been working to connect people with water since 2001. At the confluence of water, people, and technology, our focus is water — because all communities need swimmable, drinkable, fishable water to thrive. We empower people, because it takes a community to protect water. We create communications tools, because the web has the power to engage enough people to protect all waters. Today, Swim Drink Fish is an internationally-recognized charity that has connected 7 million people to their local waters and has activated about 2 billion dollars in restoration work since 2001. Because everyone has a right to swimmable, drinkable, fishable water.
This project is made possible with the support of
