connection tot he water

‘Authentic Indigenous experiences’: Tourism businesses grow to 1,900 countrywide

‘Authentic Indigenous experiences’: Tourism businesses grow to 1,900 countrywide

Jenifer Redsky and her sisters run Oceah Oceah — a First Nations paddling company with a mission to connect people “with and to water” in Tkaronto (Toronto). “As an Indigenous woman, we’ve always been taught that we have a special connection to the water,” said Redsky. “My sisters and I really believe that by doing the work that we do, by giving people lessons, teaching them the skills, bringing them down to the water, we’re increasing people’s connection to the water, their relationship to the water, how they treat the water and how they protect it alongside us.”