The Indian Friendship Centre devotes its time and effort to enhance the aboriginal environment in the community, through means of leadership and activities.
As part of promoting the native heritage, a few members of the staff at the Friendship Centre sometimes organize sweat lodges for people wanting to attend them. The sweat lodges are a symbol of purification, where the heat acts as a cleanser to purify the spirit.
This past winter, the Indian Friendship organized a gathering where aboriginal parents and children from the community came to celebrate the Christmas spirit in good faith and friendship.
Every Friday evening over the course of a few months, the Centre held the "Friendship Cafe" where members of the staff would get together and share their talents and appreciation for music. Anybody from the community was welcomed to join the Cafe every week, either to participate or simply to sit back and enjoy the music.
The Centre also participates in the creation of native crafts, where staff members and fellow Aboriginals come out to teach youngsters and people from the community how to make dreamcatchers. Crafts are a respected tradition in the native culture and their symbolism expresses many of the culture's beliefs and heritage.
To read about the legend of the Dream Catcher, click here
