Point of interest
Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre
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February 16, 2020
The Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre has a rich history which includes reestablishing our traditions and culture. For decades, Indigenous people were restricted in practicing our ways and performing our ceremonies, which lead to many of our people to lose this knowledge. The Fort Erie Friendship Centre aims to correct this by helping our communities to heal and reclaim their identity. This movement began in the late 1970s with our founders who originally created the Fort Erie Native Social Club, a satellite to the Niagara Regional Native Centre, to provide a place where our people could get together and hang out away from the ignorance, judgments and racism that they faced daily during that time in history.
The Fort Erie Native Friendship Centre has a rich history which includes reestablishing our traditions and culture. For decades, Indigenous people were restricted in practicing our ways and performing our ceremonies, which lead to many of our people to lose this knowledge. The Fort Erie Friendship C…
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Location
796 Buffalo Rd
Fort Erie, ON