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MIKE DEAL / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS Brokenhead Ojibway Nation Chief Deborah Smith in her office on the First Nation. The new program on Brokenhead First Nation, Kitigay (Ojibway for "To Grow"), is exploring how community-led Indigenous food systems and teaching can help create food sovereignty and self-determination. In collaboration with the University of Manitoba, Brokenhead Ojibway Nation will grow rice paddies, a farm and a tiny house to teach sustainable food production to community members and academics alike in a unique blended course program. see Julia-Simone Rutgers story 210514 - Friday, May 14, 2021.