Who we are
A CHARITY built the way good relationships are built – slowly, honestly, on the land.
HIP is a national registered Canadian charity. For twelve years we’ve worked from a simple premise: you don’t reconcile a country from a boardroom. You do it by putting young people from different backgrounds on the same trail, around the same fire, learning from the same Elders.
Reconciliation, in practiceThe Calls to Action
The Calls to Action
ask for exactly this.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action 62 to 66 point directly
at education and youth programming as the path forward. HIP was built to
answer that call — and to give funders, educators, and government
partners a concrete way to show up for it.
at education and youth programming as the path forward. HIP was built to
answer that call — and to give funders, educators, and government
partners a concrete way to show up for it.
HIP News
Capacity campaign, 2026–2031
One Fire Canada: building the infrastructure so the fire never goes out
A $2.5M campaign to grow HIP’s capacity – more Elders and Knowledge Keepers resourced, more communities equipped, more youth reached – built to outlast any one campaign or any one year.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
HIP acknowledges Inuit, Métis, and First Nation Peoples across Canada as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters since time immemorial. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are with us today, those who have gone before us, and the youth that inspire us.