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Honoring Empowering Anishinaabe Culture and Tradition We create programs to teach our language pass on our culture andembody our sacred relationship to niibi water and manoomin wild rice Honoring Empowering Anishinaabe Culture and Tradition We create programs to teach our language pass on our culture andembody our sacred relationship to niibi water and manoomin wild rice The Niibi Center is a repository of Anishinaabe culture and knowledge to protect our prophecy sovereignty and cultural survival Maintain Our Identity and Nation We seek to honor Anishinaabe cultural teachings build a strong sense of indigenous identity heal historical trauma and exercise inherent sovereignty. Protect Niibi and Manoomin We work together among clans agencies tribal communities generations and partnerships to protect water within and beyond tribal nations are guided and informed by Anishinaabe values teachings and leadership. Embody Respectful Relationships With All That Is We strive to embody the Anishinaabe tradition of mino bimaadiziwin to live in a good way by protecting and sharing traditional knowledge and cultural identity in support of water and wild rice. In Anishinaabe tradition there is prophecy that foretold a place where food grows on the water When our people arrived in the woodlands of Gitchigami Lake Superior we found manoomin wild rice growing in the lakes and rivers and we knew we had found our home.