School Group Tours & Experiences
Bring your classroom to the place where Manitoba’s history happened. Our school programs are designed for Grades 4–12 and offer curriculum-connected, Indigenous-led experiences at The Forks in Winnipeg. Through guided walking tours and seasonal programming, students learn directly on the land, exploring treaty history, Indigenous perspectives, and the stories that shaped this place. Available year-round with summer and winter school series options.
Summer Walking Tour
School Summer Series Rivers, Trails & Trade Indigenous Guided Walking Tour at The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Weekdays | June–September
Booking: School group experience
Guests: Up to 30 students
Bring your classroom to the place where Manitoba’s history happened. Led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours, this walking experience invites students to learn directly on the land at Nestaweya, the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
Designed for school groups, this experience connects curriculum to place, helping students explore treaty history, Indigenous perspectives, and the stories that shaped Manitoba in a way that is engaging, age-appropriate, and memorable.
Students don’t just hear history, they stand where it unfolded.
Winter Walking Tour
Winter School Series Those Who Made The Winter Indigenous Guided Walking Tour At The Forks
Duration: 45 minutes
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Weekdays | November–March
Booking: School group experience
Guests: Up to 30 students
Bring your classroom to the place where winter shaped survival, movement, and community on these lands. Led by Indigenous guides from Turtle Tours, this walking experience invites students to learn directly on the land at Nestaweya, the meeting place of the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
Designed for school groups, this experience explores Indigenous winter knowledge, seasonal movement, and resilience, helping students understand how winter was lived with strength, intelligence, and deep connection to the land.
Students don’t just hear history, they understand how winter shaped it.
Land & Water Tour
Land & Water Tour Indigenous Walking & Boat Experience at The Forks
Duration: 90 minutes
Format: 45-minute walking tour + 45-minute boat tour
Location: The Forks | Treaty 1 Territory
Availability: Spring–Fall
Booking: Private small group experience
Guests: 1–11
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.
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: 14-30
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