Great Lakes Lifeways Institute Building vibrant indigenous futures through landbased relationships We established GLLI as a 501c3 nonprofit organization in 2009 to engage diverse grassroots community groups across the Great Lakes region and Canada. By sharing our skills knowledge and resources we are revitalizing traditional ways of being. With the support of Elders and knowledge keepers we are rebuilding traditional landbased practices and inviting community members of all ages to immerse themselves in the reclamation of their knowledge and power. This knowledge and power is reified through seasonal harvest camps the construction of traditional cultural spaces and ancestral watercraft.