The annual Gatherings provide opportunity for us to exert oursovereignty over our traditional territory, gather strength and guidance fromour Ancestors, and improve awareness of the Treaty across First Nation andsettler communities.  We focus onprogramming, activities and engagement aimed at restoring our Anishinaabegovernance systems by grounding ourselves in traditional ceremonial practices throughoutthe Gatherings. By engaging in these ceremonies, we are able to share, learnand teach each other the ways our people engage with each other – respectingand honouring the contributions individually and collectively as Anishinaabekof the RHT territory.

The planning and implementation of the annual RHT Gathering,is a partnership initiative between Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin (RHW) andthe Robinson Huron Treaty Litigation Fund (RHTLF).

‍The Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 Gathering held annually brings together our Anishinaabek of the RHT First Nation communities to remember it’s signing and to commemorate and reiterate the essence of what it means and what our responsibilities are in honouring our relationships – not only amongst treaty partners but also to Creation.

2025 ROBINSON HURON TREATY OF 1850GATHERING

“As a Nation of Anishinaabek, we need to explore, understand, rekindle and retain our relationship with ourselves, and byextension, our relationship to nature and Creation. Creation was here first, and we must start with Creation to truly understand ourselves as individuals and how we relate and exist with Creation and ultimately, how we relate and exist in unity with our people – Anishinaabek.

In rekindling our relationship with ourselves, we must realize, understand, respect, and fulfill our individual roles and gifts and share them with our people in our collective efforts to protect, regain, and bring forward what had to go underground to survive until now and always for the future.

With these more solid relationships, we can see what needsto be done for our people and what will be required to accomplish our vision.

Now, let’s turn to our responsibility to Creation. It is upto each one of us, again as individuals and then as a united people, to ensurethat, as we tend to our relationships amongst ourselves and others, we includeour language and traditional practices.

It is our responsibility to speak our language—Anishinaabemowin. The Creator provided us with this language so we could always say, share, and learn the meanings and teachings of life and well-being for all. Even if we speak just a little, we must do our best to say it daily. Anishinaabemowin helps us understand, relate to, and be one withCreation. Our language helps keep Creation protected and alive.

In our reciprocal relation to creation, we must move forwardwith caring for and protecting our lands, as they are the reason for ourexistence.

Lastly, as we progress through all of our relationship andresponsibility roles, we must always do so through traditional ceremony andprayer. This is what starts a journey, keeps us going through a journey, andends a journey. A journey can be individual or together with others. It is ourresponsibility to ensure we welcome, hold, and use our sacred medicines anditems in ways that respect their roles in all our relationships andresponsibilities to Creation.”