Mino Wahkotowin Indigenous Development Corporation
Indigenous knowledge.
Organizational leadership.
Generational purpose.
Mino Wahkotowin Indigenous Development Corporation is an Indigenous-owned company based in Winnipeg, working with leaders, organizations, schools, and communities across Manitoba.
Our work connects Indigenous knowledge and lived experience with the practical responsibilities of developing people, leading organizations, and building strength across generations.
Leadership
Cree education. Executive experience. Direct delivery.
Demian is a Swampy Cree educator, leader, and founder based in Winnipeg. He has taught Indigenous education for 13 years.
His foundation in Cree knowledge has developed through sustained learning from Elders and on the land. Hunting, fishing, harvesting, and shared work have been part of that education, shaping his understanding of relationships, responsibility, and how teachings become meaningful through experience.
His teaching brings stories, practical work, and reflection together, helping participants connect what they learn with their choices, relationships, and responsibilities. He approaches this work with respect for the Elders and learning that have shaped him, and a commitment to continuing his own education.
He previously served as Executive Director of Food Matters Manitoba, working in Indigenous food systems, community partnerships, and capacity development.
Through MWIDC, he brings Cree education, direct program delivery, and executive experience together in work with youth, professional teams, boards, and leadership groups.
Our purpose
Identity, purpose, and responsibility are foundations for growth.
We begin with a belief in people’s capacity to learn, grow, and contribute. Our work creates opportunities to develop that capacity through Indigenous teachings, practical experience, relationships, and reflection.
That foundation connects youth education, professional learning, executive leadership, and organizational development. Each engagement addresses a different context while keeping purpose, responsibility, and relationships at the centre.
At the organizational level, we help partners consider how those principles take form in leadership, shared work, reconciliation commitments, and decisions that affect others.
See the ways we work with partnersOur approach
Our approach reflects a Cree understanding of learning: teachings can gain meaning as people return to them through experience, work, and reflection. A story heard years earlier can offer new insight when a person encounters a different challenge or responsibility.
We bring story, dialogue, practical work, and guided reflection together, connecting learning with the responsibilities participants carry in their lives and roles.
Harvesting, food preparation, outdoor skills, and shared tasks create opportunities to practise care, cooperation, and responsibility. Participants develop practical capability while exploring their relationships with the land and one another.
Stories, dialogue, and reflection open questions about purpose, judgment, roles, and relationships. Learning is connected to the decisions people make and the responsibilities they carry in their work.
What guides us
Listen to people and their context. Care for the knowledge being shared, the land, and the relationships involved in the work.
Connect purpose with action. Be clear about commitments, consider the effects of decisions, and create opportunities for people to contribute meaningfully.
Develop the work with partners. Build shared understanding of goals, roles, and the people or communities an engagement is intended to serve.
Use experience and reflection to develop capability. Return to teachings, seek feedback, and connect learning with everyday practice.
Work with MWIDC
Whether you are developing leaders, shaping organizational direction, advancing reconciliation, or creating learning opportunities for your team or community, tell us what you want to strengthen.
Prefer email? info@minowahkotowin.ca