Moccasin Trails

07/04/2023

Come try a sport you will play for a life time…

WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN US FOR NAIG 2023? Team BC is seeking Golf athletes to join us at the 2023 North American Indigenous Games in Halifax, this July! Registration is open, don't miss out on the opportunity to be a part of Team BC! Please read below to learn more about the sport of

30/09/2022

Today is National Truth and Reconciliation Day, one that's always on our minds. We think about our grandparents, great-grandparents, Our mothers and fathers, and our kids. They're the reason why everything we do is rooted in their teachings.

We need to bring awareness and hear stories from our grassroots people. At Moccasin Trails, we provide authentic Indigenous experiences that are rooted in culture and education. Our hope is that through these experiences, people will begin to open up their minds and hearts to the importance of reconciliation.

🧡 Every Child Matters starts with the next generation.
🧡 Every Child Matters starts with the Indian Trial.
🧡 Every Child Matters starts with education and awareness, so that we can begin to heal the wounds of the past.

photo: City of Kamloops Team Building Workshop 2021
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03/09/2022

We are excited and honoured for Glohaven's Indigenous Advisor, good friend & internationally acclaimed guest speaker, Greg Hopf to host the upcoming Indigenous Showcase! 🤩 🎉

Get ready to learn about today’s world in Indigenous Tourism, through Greg's charismatic & heartfelt storytelling & be inspired to work towards reconciliation in an authentic, meaningful way. 🧡

Get your tickets & join us on Sept 6th at the Vernon Towne Theatre! https://ticketing.uswest.veezi.com/purchase/808?siteToken=439pvav6a7nq4kq87fgmrty0qr
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21/07/2022

Moccasin Trails had the honour to paddle in the 2022 “Pulling Together” Canoe journey. Thanks to the Secwepemc Heath Caucus, to be on Green Lake in the Secwepemc territory with over 200 paddlers and over 12 Large Canoe families from across the Province of British Columbia was an experience we will cherish forever.
Thanks to for helping us out.
Looking forward to being a part of this journey for next year!!!

15/07/2022

We are honoured to receive the CFDC of CIFN and United Way BC Emergent Response and Recovery Grant! 🙌🏾❤️‍🔥🦅

As a small business with a big heart, we appreciate how this will support our recovery from the 2021 floods. ❤️
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02/07/2022

Just little History lesson of our country…Every city name in our country is a bastardized version of the original Indigenous word of that area!!!

23/06/2022

🌿 What an incredible day spent on the land! This Monday, Moccasin Trails led a live event for Shaw Communications and their staff!

Over 150 people attended a virtual tour of the Traditional Territory of Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc, and a fireside chat on the subject of National Indigenous Peoples Day!

🙌 Hands raised to the Shaw team for making this event part of their reconciliation journey! We are grateful for the time spent listening to our stories, learning the importance of National Indigenous History Month and the overwhelmingly positive feedback!

- Hosted in collaboration with Foster Media Group
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21/06/2022

Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day!

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲...
Our people’s achievements, our culture and how proud we are that we have First Nations blood running through our bodies, our people, and our future

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝘄𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗻...
Our resilience, the real history of the oppression our families from generations before us suffered, and a time where our people were free!

𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆...
To teach our Non-Indigenous neighbours who we are as a people and celebrate alongside with them. We share our personal stories, our personal achievements, and our culture.
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07/06/2022

You're invited to join our 5-Day Indigenous Culture Journey tour, and fill your heart and mind with authentic souvenirs of Indigenous cultures across the Okanagan Valley! 🌿 🛶

Check out Indigenous Tourism BC's post below &/or visit https://bit.ly/IndigenousCultureJourney to learn more!

02/06/2022

Last week we had the pleasure of attending Rendez-vous Canada 2022!
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𝙎𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙠𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩…
- Moccasin Trails has a unique brand and experience that tour operators are keen on sharing with their markets
- Greg met with 49 Tour operators from all over the world
- Discussions focused on buyers from around the world being interested in Authentic Indigenous experiences to sell to their markets in their countries
- Good things are on the horizon, as buyers are interested more than ever in working with Canadian Indigenous tour operators
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🙌 Hands raised to Destination Canada and The Tourism Industry Association of Canada for hosting this insightful, and meaningful event!
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31/05/2022

Happy National Tourism Week!

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🙌 Thank you Indigeno Travel for the feature!

It’s National Tourism Week!

It’s more important than ever to celebrate and champion our rich industry after two extremely difficult years. This week, let’s share our favourite destinations and tourism businesses across the country!

Today we’re showcasing our friends at Moccasin Trails:

“We want to bring people from around the world on the ancestral paths our people walked, have them taste the food we ate, sing the songs we sang, hear the stories that were passed down orally from generations ago, and travel down the rivers we canoed. In order to truly learn about our culture, we felt the only way was to touch, smell, see, hear, and feel it. Our journey started hundreds of years ago but your journey will start right now with us at Moccasin Trails.”

12/05/2022

Moccasin Trails is grateful to have been a part of this powerful conversation panel “Decolonization of Tourism” on Day 2 of the Impact Sustainability Travel & Tourism Conference! 🙌

Tourism is coming back… and with Indigenous tourism being the fastest growing sector in Canada’s tourism industry (pre-COVID), it plays a majorly important role in building back better and taking action towards reconciliation.

Thank you for including Moccasin Trails/ Chief Frank Antoine (Co-founder/Co-owner) in this conversation!
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09/05/2022

An exciting day spent meeting the leadership group of Grand Circle Travel! We are thrilled to be working with GCT for their Western Canada Rocky Mountain Tour for the summer/fall of 2022. ⛰️

Visit https://bit.ly/37zfRCE to learn more about this upcoming 14-Day Tour - We look forward to seeing you on Day 9! 🙌
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06/05/2022

Repost: May 5th is a National Day of Awareness for . This National Day of importance honours all Indigenous Mothers, daughters, sisters, aunties, grandmothers, nieces and cousins across Turtle Island… ❤️🙏

Thank you Bonnie Lepine Antoine for taking this picture of our daughter Maya with her Grandma & cousin…

Via: Repost from Frank Antoine, Co-founder/ Co-owner of Moccasin Trails
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05/05/2022

Today is May 5th - A day that brings awareness to the issue of our missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA people (MMIWG2S+).

Did you know… Indigenous women are 12x more likely to be murdered or missing than any other women in Canada? This is why it is so important to recognize, think about and continue to bring awareness to . 👗

Here are a few simple ways to show your support…
- Wear red
- Read the Final Report: https://www.mmiwg-ffada.ca/final-report/
- Any events in your community? Go attend them!
- Educate yourself through Indigenous news ex. https://indiginews.com/
- Support Indigenous women in business
- Purchase & wear a Moose Hide Campaign pin: https://moosehidecampaign.ca/get-involved/order-pins-and-cards
- Contact Moccasin Trails Consulting to facilitate an educational workshop (available for one on one, up to large companies): https://www.moccasintrails.com/consulting

Music: Track 7 by Cree Métis Singer-Songwriter Auroara Leigh
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27/04/2022

🙌 "We all have so many chapters to share from our life's journey. I am lucky to share mine now." ~ Frank Antoine, Co-founder/Co-owner

21/04/2022

Check this out! After an exciting first day at the BC Cannabis Summit, Greg was featured in this CHBC - Global Okanagan news segment (and article)!

🙌 Read the full article: https://globalnews.ca/news/8773954/bc-cannabis-conference-small-farms-stakeholders/

“Some of our best growers are Indigenous and live in our Indigenous communities. Now, if we can provide benefits to our communities through growing and farming (that would be great),” ~ Greg Hopf, Co-owner of Moccasin Trails Consulting

“There’s just so many benefits that we can bring into our Indigenous communities, and, at the end of the day, cannabis is here and it’s not going away. If we, as Indigenous owners, growers, if we don’t take advantage of this, someone else will. Why not us?”

Association of Canadian Cannabis Retailers
BC Craft Farmers Co-op
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The B.C. Cannabis Summit is being held by the Association for Canadian Cannabis Retailers and BC Craft Farmers Co-op, at Kelowna's Eldorado Resort.

18/04/2022

Moccasin Trails is very excited to be contributing to the BC Craft Farmers Co-op BC Cannabis Summit. 🙌 The issue of cannabis as an industry, we are discussing at our leadership level in our communities. It is our communities and leadership that will lead us into the future with cannabis.

The comprehensive 3-day event features insights and advice from industry experts, policy discussions and resolutions, a business trade show, industry networking, and special events at the Eldorado Resort and online.⁠

We look forward to sharing our take on Indigenous developments in BC, while participating in the Day Two Opening Ceremony, and Fireside Chat: Indigenous Government Leadership.

Purchase virtual tickets online now to attend Moccasin Trails & TDC events.
Learn more about the summit here: https://www.bccraftfarmerscoop.com/summit/

TDC was co-founded by an Indigenous womxn & established in 2021 on the soil of Turtle Island.

Video Credit: The Different Collective
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05/04/2022

On April 6th, Greg is excited and honoured to join Tata Consultancy Services - North America and Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business for the panelist event, ‘Overcoming Digital Barriers, Exploring Strategies to Prosperity from Indigenous-owned SMEs’, alongside incredible cross-sector leaders driving impact in the Indigenous community.

This will be an exciting discussion and reflection on strategies Indigenous business owners created to overcome digital barriers during the pandemic. Register today to be a part of the conversation! https://on.tcs.com/DigitalBarriers

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01/04/2022

Moccasin Trails is humbled and honoured to be recognized by the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce by winning the inaugural ‘Indigenous Business of the Year' Award. The 34th Business Excellence Awards was a very special evening to celebrate ‘Rockin' Resilience’! Greg, along with his wife, Sharon, accepted the award on behalf of Moccasin Trails, while Frank participated in a reconciliation ceremony in Willams Lake.

There are so many people that we share this award with; our Elders, Guides, Knowledge Keepers, tourism organizations (Indigenous Tourism Canada, Indigenous Tourism BC, and the Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association), partners, cultural grassroots community members, and most importantly, our families. Thank you to all of these incredible people and our Moccasin Trails community for your support!

We are so proud of the work we do. Through education, we feel we are breaking down stereotypes of Indigenous people. All the facilitated workshops we are hired to do, the tours we lead with our guests and tourists, and the public speaking we do… these all have an educational message to our clients that comes from our hearts and souls.

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Mahsi Cho!
Kukwstsétsemc!
Thank you!
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01/04/2022

Wekykt! Wecweytp Preswa. Ren sqweqwst, Stuctews te Secwepemculw.

“Hello Everyone! Frank is my name. I come from Bonaparte, which is part of the Shuswap Nation.”

As an Indigenous person, our DNA is our land, and our connection to our land is our language. Today, let’s celebrate 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆 by learning 1 new word for the next 365 days.
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A Secwepemctsín language lesson for today:
𝗞𝘂𝗸𝘄𝘀𝘁𝘀é𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗺𝗰 - “Thank you”
𝗠𝗲𝟳 𝘄í𝗸𝘀𝘁𝘀𝗲𝗻 - “See you”

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As language is so important, we are thinking about finding a new name for ‘Moccasin Trails Consulting.’ ‘Consulting,’ is a colonial word, so we’d like to move away from this, to find something that better connects with our language and culture. But, what may be a suitable word in my language, for example, helping others, ‘𝗞𝗻𝘂𝗰𝘄𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗰𝘄’ [K-new-went-twa], is a different word in Greg’s Chipewyn language. It’s not a simple change, however, we look forward to sharing more with you as we work towards finding the right word(s) that resonate with what we are doing. We welcome your thoughts.

~ Chief Frank Antoine of the Bonaparte First Nation, Co-founder/Co-owner | Moccasin Trails Inc.

Music by Cree Métis singer-songwriter:
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31/03/2022

𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆. Today celebrates and honours the strength and resilience of Indigenous language and culture. Our language is so important. It grounds us, identifies us, and defines us.
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𝗔 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗲𝘄𝘆𝗻 [𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗽-𝗲𝗵-𝘄𝗼𝗻] 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆:

I was born and raised in the Northwest Territories. In our language, we say, 𝗗𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗵 [den-en-day] - Denendeh translates to ‘The land of the people,’ because we truly believe that our land is a living person.

𝗠𝗮𝗵𝘀𝗶 𝗖𝗵𝗼 [mah-see-cho] - “Have a good day!”

I challenge you, to go out and learn the local Indigenous language of the community, you share them with.
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⬇️ Share with us below... what is a word in your language and what does it mean?

~ Greg Hopf - Denesółiné [dene-so-sling-eh], Co-owner/Co-founder | Moccasin Trails Inc.

Music by Cree Métis singer-songwriter:
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21/10/2021

Thank you west jet for sharing our authenticity of our traditional values…

23/09/2021

Our company is surviving & thriving through all this pandemic & tourism decline. We had to change our approach to sharing our culture. The resilience & determination of Moccasin Trails is the DNA of our ancestors that runs in our blood. It is our responsibility to pass this on to the next generations arriving… 🏔 🦌 👱🏼‍♂️

Moccasin Trails is a 100% Indigenous owned tourism company. They take visitors on a spiritual journey which is like taking them back 500 years. People learn ...

28/05/2021

Thank you West Jet & ITAC for giving us a gift that not only supports us financially but allowing us to come together as a family in a time of need. When we all struggle we find a way to make sure we all helping each other mentally, physically, emotionally & most of spiritually! The creator will guide us though this life experience. It will make us more stronger on many levels standing together...
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