From the Canadian Blue Community Water Watchers:
Join water walker Bewasaya for a digital gathering on April 16th at 7pm to learn about the 9th annual ‘Mother Water Walk’.
Bewasaya (also known as LeeAnne Stevens) is a dedicated land-based knowledge keeper, water protector, and multidisciplinary artist. Committed to safeguarding the natural world and preserving Anishinaabemowin, she blends activism with creativity, using art as a tool for cultural resilience. She designed the Water Walk logos and has spent years honing her craft in drawing, watercolor, and beadwork. She also cares for and works with sled dogs, deepening her connection to the land through traditional practices. Through her work, she upholds traditional knowledge, resists colonial harm, and advocates for the integrity of Indigenous identity, ensuring the protection of land, water, and culture for future generations.
Bewasaya is the founder of Wendaajiwondehnong Bimoseyan – Mother Water Walk, which she’ll share more intimately about in this upcoming digital event hosted by Water Watchers.
Bewasaya has single handedly taken up the important ceremony of honouring the waters of the “High Heart Forever Life Flowing Place,” now known as the Niagara Escarpment, which is the largest freshwater source in the world. She has done this work for the past 8 years. This year will be the ninth. Bewasaya walks to pray for and honour the waters of this unique geologic feature, home of the headwaters of most tributaries within this part of the Dish with One Spoon territory. She refers to the flowing waters here as being ‘like our Mother’s Heart pumping life’.
The Agency for Water ~ A Special Opportunity for Allyship
The Agency for Water was created to support Indigenous visionaries to create regenerative space for the operationalization of their visions related to water/land governance.
The 2025 Agency for Water project is focused on the Wendaajiwondehnong Bimoseyan – Mother Water Walk (May 17 – June 21, 2025), led by Bewasaya.
Please give generously to support this fully Indigenous-led Sacred Water Walk.
“This Ceremonial Healing Journey is a way for us to connect with the Spirit of Water through gratitude and share in the creation of awareness as it exemplifies the importance of cultivating all relations for health and wellbeing as well as re-establishing our connection to language and culture through mindfulness, meditation, creativity, ceremony, laughter and prayer.”
– Bewasaya
Join us on Wednesday April 16th, 7pm to learn more about Bewasaya’s vision and this upcoming Water Walk. You can RSVP here.
The 9th Annual Wendaajiwandehnong Bimoseyam – Mother Water Walk officially starts on May 17, 2025 at Fort Mississauga and ends at Sacred Site Nochemowenaning on the Saugeen Peninsula on June 21, 2025.
Hope to see you there!
Water Watchers
