• Biida’adoo Community Voices Survey

  • Welcome Page

  • Biida’adoo, a 32 unit apartment building located near downtown Minneapolis, is being created as a place for community, culture, healing, learning, and connection.

    Before we decide exactly what cultural programming should happen here—or how the cultural spaces should be designed—we want to listen.

    This survey asks about cultural experiences you might like opportunities to learn, practice, participate in, or reconnect with. Some experiences may begin on the land, move into making or preparing something, include songs and teachings, and eventually bring people together for ceremony, food, or community.

    You do not need previous cultural knowledge or experience to take the survey. There are no right or wrong answers.

    We want to hear what calls to you.

  • Contact Information

  • Format: (000) 000-0000.

  • Section 1: A Quick Look at the Cultural Areas

  • Land-Based Experiences: Hands on activities conducted on the land. For example, wild ricing, maple sugaring, fishing and netting, tipi building, longhouse building, and building a sweat lodge.

    Traditional Foods & Medicines: Gathering plants, making plant preparations, growing and making tea, berries and Native foods, sage and sweetgrass, gardening, and seasonal preservation.

    Arts & Making: Beading, moccasins, leatherwork, ribbon skirts and shirts, birchbark and natural materials, quillwork, drums, and rattles.

    Music, Drum & Songs: Community drum group, hand drum, rattles, learning songs, language through songs, flute, and visiting singers.

    Ceremony & Spiritual Practices: Sweat lodge, pipe ceremony, smudging and medicines, talking circles, seasonal ceremonies, and cultural or spiritual teachers. 

    Cultural Learning & Language: Ojibwemowin and language tables, stories, oral teachings, seasonal teachings, history, identity, and teachings for living

  • Q1. After seeing the examples above, rank these cultural areas based on what interests you most. Place the area you are most interested in first.*

  • Section 2: Land-Based Experiences

  • Q2. Which of the following land-based experiences interest you? Select as many as you would like. You do not need previous experience.*
  • Q2A — What do you want to learn about Wild Ricing?*
  • Q2B — What do you want to learn about Maple Sugaring?*
  • Q2C — What do you want to learn about Fishing & Netting?*
  • Q2D — What do you want to learn about building a Tipi?*
  • Q2E — What do you want to learn about building a Longhouse?*
  • Q2F — What do you want to learn about Sweat Lodge: Building to Ceremony?*

  • Section 3: Traditional Foods & Medicines

  • Q3- Which of these experiences sounds interesting to you?*
  • Q3A — What do you want to learn about Medicines: Plant to Use?*
  • Q3B — What do you want to learn about Tea: Garden to Cup?*
  • Q3C — What do you want to learn about Native Berries & Foods: Harvest to Table?*
  • Q3D — What do you want to learn about Sage & Sweetgrass: Growing to Cultural Use?*
  • Q3E — What do you want to learn about Community Growing?*
  • Q3F — What do you want to learn about Preparing for the Seasons?*

  • Section 4: Arts & Making

  • Q4- Which of these would you be interested in learning or making?*
  • Q4A — What do you want to learn about Beading: Design to Finished Piece?*
  • Q4B — What do you want to learn about Moccasins & Leatherwork?*
  • Q4C — What do you want to learn about Ribbon Skirts & Ribbon Shirts?*
  • Q4D — What do you want to learn about Birchbark & Natural Materials?*
  • Q4E — What do you want to learn about Quillwork & Natural Art?*
  • Q4F — What do you want to learn about Drum & Rattle Making?*
  • Q4G- Would any of the following interest you?*

  • Section 5: Music / Drum / Songs

  • Q5- Which musical experiences sound interesting to you?*
  • Q5A — What do you want to learn about Community Drum Groups?*
  • Q5B — What do you want to learn about Rattles?*
  • Q5C — What do you want to learn about Hand Drums?*
  • Q5D — What do you want to learn about Songs, Language & Stories?*

  • Section 6: Ceremony & Spiritual Practices

  • Q6- Which opportunities would you be interested in having access to?*
  • Q6A. When it comes to ceremony and spiritual practices, how might you like to participate?*

  • Section 7: Cultural Learning & Language

  • Q7 - Which ways of learning sound interesting to you?*
  • Q7A- I would like opportunities to learn language while:*

  • Connecting the Experiences

  • Q8- Which type of cultural experience sounds most appealing to you?*
  • Q8- Which type of cultural experience appeals to you? (select all that apply)

  • Section 9: Informing the Space

  • Q10. Thinking about the experiences you selected, what would help Biida’adoo support them well?*

  • Culture/Connection/Well-Being

  • Q13- What do you hope having more opportunities to participate in culture could bring into your life?*

  • Sharing Knowledge

  • Q16- Do you have cultural skills, knowledge, or experiences that you might someday want to share with others?*
  • Q17- Would you ever be interested in helping teach or lead an activity at Biida’adoo?*

  • Career & Income Opportunities

  • Your Vision

  • Should be Empty: