Who We Are

 Abiinooji Aki Inc. (AAI), supported by GLIFWC, and the LCO Tribe, organized a symposium for Women and Water Coming Together held August 7th - 11th, 2016 on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation near Hayward, WI.  The symposium brought together over 85 participants from different locations across the United States. With this first Women & Water symposium successfully completed, we began organizing for the Women & Men Together For The Water, to be held Summer 2017. Due to a death in the family of the Founder and Organizer of the event, it was cancelled for 2017. So we carry on and are now on our way to organizing the Women and Water Coming Together Symposium for 2018.
    Hayward, Wisconsin is located 70 miles South of Superior/Duluth, 133 miles East of Minneapolis/St. Paul and 50 South of Ashland, WI.
    The goal of the Women and Water Coming Together Symposium is to bring over 5,000 women together to empower them so they can stand up for clean water laws for future life to come. Currently we are building programs, writing letters to donors and holding events to raise funds so we won’t have to charge a fee to the women who want to come.
    We welcome your input and ideas and your support as well to make this a successful healing event for all life.
Please write us at  AAI P.O. Box 444, Hayward, WI or Facebook at: Abiinooji Aki, Inc.
  
Abiinooji Aki, Inc (AAI), founded The Anishinaabe Way conference on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. A conference dedicated to educating Native and Non-Native professionals across the United States in working with Native American patients. The Anishinaabe Way was the first conference dedicated to working with Native American clients in recovery and has inspired many programs and agencies across the nation. The Anishinaabe Way conference was a Wisconsin certified training program through the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction and the Wisconsin Certification Board and has assisted many programs, therapists, psychologists, counselor, treatment center, clinics and people in recovery for over 25 years. We have provided various training programs in healing, grieving, AODA, youth programs and more. Now we are working on a very valuable project for people of the world. The Women & Water Coming Together Symposium was inspired by Ojibwe Grandmother and AAI Director/Founder - Maryellen Baker, Niiyogiizhigokwe.

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Board of Directors
Maryellen Baker, President
George Stamm, Vice President
Karen Donahoe
Denise King

Fundraising Committee
Vicki Carpenick
Suzanne Mils-Wemm
Rhonda Wharton
Sue Erickson
Dona Yahola

Women Core Committee
Vicki Carpenick
Maryellen Baker
Erin LaFaive
Stan Oda
Bill Buchholtz
Cindy Starr
Tebelee Guidino
Ann and Greg Hermann
Suzanne Mills-Wemm
Kathy Heskin
Joseph Many Horses Davis
Margaret Meiser