Key Partners
In summer 2023, Banff and Lake Louise Tourism, the Banff Canmore Community Foundation and the Indigenous circle entered a agreement to the end of 2023, to mark the continued incubation of Mînî hrpa, in partnership with the community. The incubation of the Indigenous cultural center is jointly supported and funded by Banff and Lake Louise Tourism and BCCF. Mînî hrpa is seeking additional partnerships from Bow Valley organizations, industry, funders and municipal entities. BCCF’s Truth and Reconciliation Fund also is providing a financial pathway to support the work of Mînî hrpa. To learn more and to donate, visit Banff Canmore Foundation Truth and Reconciliation Fund.
2020
Banff Canmore Community Foundation, Town of Banff, Town of Canmore are successful recipients of an Alberta Civil Society Grant from the province. The Moving Mountains Initiative was born.
Key Dates
2021
In Fall 2021, the Initiative adopts a Co-Leadership model with Daryl Kootenay and Jeanie Macpherson working together as Co-Leads of the Initiative.
2022
The Indigenous Knowledge Circle emerges from the Initiative’s civil society consultation work, revealing itself as central to Indigenous knowledge exchange and sharing, and in advisory to the work of the initiative.
The Bow Valley Indigenous and Allies Working Group emerges, bringing together rightsholders and stakeholders in meaningful, regionally based dialogue.
2023
The Indigenous Knowledge Circle of the Moving Mountains Initiative becomes the governing circle of Mînî hrpa.
The first ever Indigenous Cultural Pop-up Centre is held in March 2023 in Banff National Park. The event is the soft launch of Mînî hrpa.