Welcome ~ Pijashin!

The Circle of Turtle Lodge was created in 1999 to revive, promote, and restore the Traditional Culture and Teachings of the Indigenous People of the Ottawa Valley ~ the Algonquin Anishinabe.  In recent years, we refined our focus to helping Indigenous People access Ceremony and Teachings from Traditional Elders and Spiritual Leaders.

We are an independent not-for-profit organization, and a registered charity, based in Deacon, Ontario, which is at the head of Golden Lake in unceded Algonquin Territory.

Our members include individuals from many different Indigenous Nations from across Canada, regardless of ‘status’.

And although most Indigenous issues are political, we do our best to maintain a neutral and national focus