Small Group Tours & Experiences
Our small group tours & experiences are designed for those looking for a more personal experience. Perfect for friends, families, or small gatherings, these tours offer added flexibility, meaningful conversation, and a deeper connection to the land and its stories.
Summer Walking Tour
Small Group Rivers, Trails & Trade Indigenous Guided Walking Tour at The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Individual ticket (public tour)
Guests: 2-13
Walk the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya—where nations gathered long before Winnipeg existed. Led by Indigenous guides, this experience offers a deeper understanding of the land, its history, and the stories that continue to shape it.
Winter Walking Tour
Small Group Those Who Made The Winter Indigenous Guided Walking Tour At The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: November–March
Booking: Individual or private booking
Guests: 2-13
Step into the season that shaped survival, movement, and connection on these lands. Led by Indigenous guides, this winter experience offers a more personal way to understand The Forks through story, knowledge, and lived history.
Land & Water Tour
Small Group Land & Water Tour Indigenous Walking & Boat Experience at The Forks
Duration: 90 minutes (45-minute walking tour + 45-minute boat tour)
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private small group experience
Guests: 2–11
Experience the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya, from both land and water. This two-part experience begins with a guided Indigenous walking tour, sharing the stories, history, and significance of this place, followed by a boat tour along the same waterways that connected nations and carried trade. Led by Indigenous guides in partnership with Winnipeg Waterways, this experience offers a deeper understanding of place, movement, and connection.
Land to water, the story comes alive.
Small Boat Tour
Waters of Nestaweya Indigenous Boat Tour
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private small group experience
Guests: 2–11
Travel the waterways of Nestaweya—the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers—where Indigenous Nations have gathered, travelled, and traded for thousands of years. Departing from The Forks, this guided boat experience offers a deeper understanding of how these rivers shaped movement, relationships, and the city we know today. Led by Indigenous guides in partnership with Winnipeg Waterways, this experience brings the story of the land into motion on the water.
The water remembers. Come learn why.
Indigenous Culinary Experience
Small Group Taste Of Survival Indigenous Culinary Storytelling Experience
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private small group experience
Guests: 2–13
Gather at the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers, known as Nestaweya, and experience the food that carried nations. Led by Indigenous hosts, this hands-on culinary experience explores the story of pemmican, how it fueled travel, supported trade, and sustained communities through generations. Around the fire, guests gain a deeper understanding of food as more than nourishment, but as knowledge, connection, and survival.
More than a tasting, it’s a connection that stays with you.
Add-On Tea Experience
River Woman Tea Indigenous Tea Teaching Add-On Experience
Duration: 15 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Add-on to select experiences
Guests: 2-13
Enhance your tour with a short Indigenous tea teaching featuring River Woman Tea. In our communities, tea is chosen with purpose, plants are gathered intentionally and with care for the land so it continues to provide season after season.
Each guest is served a cup of River Woman Tea while learning how plant knowledge, relationship, and respect for the land have always been part of life here. This is not a refreshment break, but a teaching that brings the plant world into the story.
This is an add-on experience that can be included with your Turtle Tours
Canadian Museum For Human Rights Tour
Small Group Indigenous-Focused Guided Tour Canadian Museum For Human Rights (CMHR)
Duration: 90 minutes
Location: Canadian Museum For Human Rights, Winnipeg | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private small group experience
Explore the Canadian Museum For Human Rights through an Indigenous lens with a co-guided experience led by a Turtle Tours Indigenous interpreter alongside a CMHR interpreter. This focused tour supports guests in navigating complex histories, including residential schools, treaty relationships, and the ongoing impacts of colonization, in a way that is grounded, accessible, and respectful.
A deeper understanding of human rights through Indigenous perspective.
Residential School Museum Tour
Small Group National Indigenous Residential School Museum Experience Long Plain First Nation
Duration: 60 minutes
Location: Long Plain First Nation | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Year-round
Booking: Private small group experience
Guests: 2–13
Visit the National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada, located within the former Portage la Prairie Indian Residential School on Long Plain First Nation. This guided experience is led by museum staff or interpreters, with a Turtle Tours guide present to welcome and support your group throughout the visit.
Guests are invited to learn about the residential school system, its lasting impacts on families and communities, and the strength, resilience, and healing of Survivors and Indigenous peoples today, engaging this history in a place where it happened.
A place of truth, resilience, and learning that stays with you.