Welcome to our fourth annual seasonal gift guide! This year, we’re excited to showcase a fresh collection of Indigenous-owned businesses to make your 2024 holiday shopping meaningful.
Our theme, From the Land, celebrates products such as bannock, tea, moccasins and books. We’ve brought back beloved favourites and added some new gems to inspire your gift-giving.
Choosing to support Indigenous businesses is more than shopping—it’s a step toward practicing Reconciliation, building stronger social and economic connections, and creating a brighter future for all.
Our 2024 Picks
Here are some Indigenous-owned brands for you. Please know this is a non-exhaustive list and has been curated with those we support or have been crowdsourced from our Rise community to get you started. Happy shopping!
1. Grandma Treesaw’s Yukon Bannock: Grandma Treesaw sees her bannock as a way to share with the rest of the world, a true taste of the Yukon! Bannock (also known as fried bread) is a Yukon First Nations Cultural food made of flour that can be baked or fried. This food is crispy on the outside and fluffy on the inside and will pair well with any meal.
2. Sḵwálwen Botanicals: Inspired by the plants native to Squamish Nation lands, founder Dr. Leigh Joseph creates products that honour Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory’s botanicals.
3. Satya Organic: Founder Patrice Mousseau developed a five-ingredient organic balm rooted in traditional medicine and research, offering sustainable relief for skin conditions.
4. Mother Earth Essentials: Carrie Armstrong founded Mother Earth Essentials to preserve and share the plants of the Medicine Wheel. With guidance from her grandmother, Elders, and medicine people, she created and grew the foundations for Mother Earth products.
5. Strong Nations: Held by the Land can be purchased from Strong Nations, an Indigenous-owned book store, from the land and about the land, shipped worldwide.
6. Aaniin: The Tkaronto Collection features 100% sustainable, 100% cotton clothing made entirely in what we now call “Canada”.
7. Manitobah Indigenous Marketplace: With 100% of profits back to Indigenous Artisans, these moccasins, mukluks and other products are created using natural materials, such as deerskin, sheepskin, full grain leather, rabbit fur, moosehide and beaver fur by Indigenous Artisans.
8. Anne Mulaire: Using sustainably dyed, fair-trade bamboo fabric to craft eco-conscious apparel, Anne Mulaire’s apparel is made using low-impact processes from the land.
9. Native Northwest – Visual Journey Colouring Book: Enjoy reflecting on and learning about the Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific Northwest and their connectedness to the space between the earth and sky. Printed with vegetable-based inks and a water-based protective coating on paper sourced from sustainable forests, this colouring book features text by Musqueam Coast Salish artist Melaney Gleeson-Lyall and the work of Haisla artist Paul Windsor, among 12 other Indigenous artists. 100% of the art featured on Native Northwest products is designed by Indigenous artists and comes with a Statement of Respect and Authenticity.
We hope this list of Indigenous businesses inspires you to look locally, too. For more ideas – check out the other Things We Like at Rise…