Aamookwe Amy McCoy

Anishinaabe Science and Food Sovereignty Educator

Bay Mills Community College Waishkey Bay Farm

State: mi

About

Aamookwe Amy McCoy is a language learner and teacher. Nibiminza’aan gidinwewininaan endaso giizhig. Nigagwe-gikendaan ji-Anishinaabe izhitwaayaan endaso giizhik gabe giizhik ige. Niwenda-minwaadiz ji wiidookawagwaa niij-anishinaabedog omaa maamawi-bimaadiziyang. She is Bawating Ojibwe; an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She has been an Ojibwe language activist for 20 years. She is a curriculum developer and the Anishinaabe Science and Food Sovereignty Educator for Bay Mills Community College where she also teaches beginning Ojibwe online. She has been teaching interdisciplinary Ojibwe language and culture for 18 years in various capacities. Although she has achieved post graduate education that complements delivery of curricula, it is the Indigenous and Traditional Ecological Knowledge she acquired from her Elders that drives focus to the life of her curriculum development. She is passionate about her relationship with the land, waters and Ojibwe plant knowledge through seasonal activities with our more than human relatives. She also teaches mindfulness from an Ojibwe perspective as well as trauma informed yoga and meditation for survivors of domestic and sexual violence and addictions recovery. She is a PhD student at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction: Culture and Teaching specific to Ojibwe Revitalization.