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Indigenous peoples have a landbased education system that emerges out of their own worldviews and perspectives, which need tobe applied to research concerning Indigenous cultures. This work explores Indigenous land-based education through the perspectives of Cree Elders of Northern, Manitoba. Six Cree Elders were interviewed to explore the ideas and practices of land-based education. The article engages discussion of Indigenous land-based education stemming from Elders’ teachings of Indigenous knowledge, cultural values, identity, and vision. Informed by Cree Elders, this qualitative study articulates an Indigenous interpretation of land-based education. Research findings demonstrate that Indigenous land-based education can be used to promote well-being among Indigenous peoples in Canada. While the study is based on the Cree experience in Northern Manitoba, its message is significant to many other Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. Drawing on the Elders’ teachings, policy recommendations are generated for advancing Indigenous landbased education  \nKeywords: Land-Based Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, Healing, Decolonization  \nJohn G Hansen PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Saskatchewan. His research and teaching focus are in the fields of Indigenous Justice; Crime and Society, and Indigenous knowledge. He is a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and writes research on Indigenous topics.  \nEmail: [john.hansen@usask.ca](john.hansen@usask.ca)  \nMany contemporary theories, national and international policies do not incorporate Indigenous voices into their understanding of nation, or peoples. Such viewpoints reduce Indigenous peoples to citizens, ethnic groups, racial groups, or interest groups, which do not give accurate representation of who Indigenous peoples are. (Champagne, 2015, p. iv)  \nChampagne (2015) argues that Indigenous voices are often treated as marginal within contemporary academic theories and institutional policies. Because Indigenous voices are marginalized, this study sought to promote Indigenous voices in the literature. Since colonized Indigenous peoples have been deterred from voicing their concerns and practising their own culture and land-based education traditions, it is understandable that there is a knowledge gap. It is conceivable, therefore, that a comprehensive discourse on how Omushkegowuk (Swampy Cree) Elders see and understand land-based education is not completely developed in the literature. This article provides a Cree model of land-based education that outlines the ideas and practices, which is lacking in the literature. However, this study developed out of the need to examine Elders teachings and thereby provides an understanding of how land based education occurred. This research hopes to provide a land based education model, model which have been used by the Swampy Cree—People of the Muskeg—of Northern Manitoba.  \nThe Indigenous Elders in this study are members of the Cree Nation who, like many other Indigenous nations, have been colonized, dispossessed from their lands, and silenced (Adams, 1975; Champagne, 2015; Radu, House, & Pashagumskum, 2014) . The primary purpose of this study is to engage discussion about Cree Elders’ voices and perspectives on land-based education. In conventional education, Indigenous voices are often marginalized and viewed as being unimportant or academically irrelevant (Champagne 2015; Hansen & Antsanen, 2016; Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada [TRCC], 2015) . 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