B’boon – Winter
Mnidoo D’bik Giisoonhs – Little Spirit Moon – December Winter Solstice
Snowshoeing, snaring, trapping, winter shelters, outdoor cooking, medicine picking, storytelling.

Manidoo D’bik Giizis – Spirit Moon – January
Ice fishing, gill net fishing, scaling, filleting, cooking, smoking fish, craft making, hunting, trapping

Mkwa D’bik Giizis – Bear Moon – February
Storytelling, traditional sewing and beading, regalia making, medicine harvesting

Mnookmi – Spring
Onaabidin D’bik Giizis – Snowscrust Moon- March Equinox
Laws of Mother Earth/Nature, observing the times of new year and new cycles of life, pipe ceremonies, tapping trees / sugar bush, making medicines

Boopogame D’bik Giizis – Broken Snowshoe Moon – April
Making moccasins, medicine bags, tanning hides, Treaty Teachings, fasting

Nmebine D’bik Giizis – Sucker Moon – May
Duck & Rabbit hunting, making traditional lodge, building and teaching behind the lodges, outdoor survival skills, traditional bow (harvest wood to use 1 year) medicine early bud harvest

Niibin – Summer
Waabgonii D’bik Giizis – Blooming Moon – June Summer Solstice
Traditional cooking, year end feast, birch bark picking, full moon time to plant seeds

Miin D’bik Giizis – Berry Moon – July
Canoeing, fishing, survival skills, berry picking, sweetgrass picking

Manoomin D’bik Giizis – Wild Rice Moon – August
Sage picking, sweetgrass picking, talking circles, canoeing, canning and storage

Dagwaagi — Fall
Waabaabagaa – D’bik Giizis – Leaves Turning Moon – September Fall Equinox
Picking sage & tobacco, review ceremonies & protocols, law making, fire making, fall harvest, birch bark crafts, time to make medicines for the year

Bnaakwii D’bik Giizis – Falling Leaves Moon – October
Hunting; Partridge, moose, bear, goose, fishing, trapping, tanning & hide making, outdoor cooking, drying meat & smoking fish, harvesting & canning, traditional bow making (carving wood after curing 1 yr)

Baashkaadin D’bik Giizis – Freezing Moon – November
Traditional clothes making & exchanging, review of seasonal weather and what the land tells us to prepare for, migration of animals, transition of life and death, fall ceremonies of offerings and remembrance

Even though there are seasonal activities listed above
Seasonal indicators are reflected in the land and anticipated our preparedness around the current cycle of the natural laws of the land.

Mindful in considerations to timing; when to plant, when to hunt, when to pick medicines, when its safe to cross the ice, when its safe to eat fish, when its time to harvest animals, and when is time to honour the life cycles of all being through these activities.

There are times of celebration during every sun rise and every sun set.
There are times of celebration during every full moon
There are traditional indicators during the first storm in the summer / in the winter/ in the spring & in the fall, the first thunder, the first snow fall, the first frost, the first sight of migration of animals.

Land Base / Water Base / Ice Base activities all work in relation to keep balance with the current seasonal shifts and balance with natural laws