NIPAAW

What is NIPAAW?

Join Us! Kick off on National Indigenous Peoples Day

The intent of this annual week event is to promote physical activity within our urban and rural Indigenous communities through organizing several simple and fun initiatives. IPACC would like to support your community or organization to “kick-off” the National Indigenous Physical Activity Awareness week. Therefore, we have created a NIPAAW Toolkit to support you along with a seven-day campaign to be physically active across Canada. Please find the NIPAAW Toolkit as a PDF at the bottom of this page.

The theme for NIPAAW’s campaign is:

SHOW US YOUR ACTIVE SPIRIT!

We are hoping to inspire communities, organizations, groups, and teams to have 7 days of fun-filled physical activity and to share their stories, photos and/or ideas to help inspire others to join in the week and “Show Us Your Active Spirit”. The NIPAAW Toolkit will help you start your own 7 days of activity. Follow IPACC on Facebook, X, and Instagram to be updated on NIPAAW including upcoming contests, ideas on how to stay active, and as a place to share how you are showing your active spirit! Please check out our social media sites for more information.

Please take a look at the toolkit and feel free to distribute with your contacts. We would be happy to discuss this or any other inquiries you might have. We can be reached at Indigenouspacc@gmail.com.

Physical activity is great for the whole family as it improves both health and well-being, and is FUN! Let’s remind our communities that being active doesn’t have to be just running laps and working out. The more people we can get to be physically active the healthier our communities will grow to be, so…

“SHOW US YOUR ACTIVE SPIRIT!”

Let's Move Canada 2026!

The Let’s Move Canada Challenge 2026 will begin on National Health and Fitness Day, June 6th, and conclude on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21st. This Challenge is an initiative of the Canadian Health and Fitness Institute and the Indigenous Physical Activity & Cultural Circle.

Join the challenge!

Let’s Move Canada 2026 Toolkit

Be part of a movement! Move with Canadians from coast to coast to coast for 16 days and contribute to your personal goals and our collective goals! Connect with stories and places across Canada. Along the way, earn digital badges for a variety of fun achievements. All activities are welcome, from cycling and running, to canoeing and yoga!

We have partnered with the Canadian fitness app and platform RunGo to track, motivate, inspire and connect us. RunGo is a GPS-guided app that provides voice navigation for custom routes, making it ideal for exploring new areas safely and confidently.

The Challenge will begin on National Health and Fitness Day (June 6, 2026) and end on National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21, 2026).

To Get Started:

Download the free app
Create an account
Click the link to join the challenge
Complete any route. It will sync automatically.
Follow the leaderboard

To Earn Badges:

Join the challenge!
Complete any of the 22 city routes
Complete 5 hours total (in 16 days)
Complete 15 hours total (in 16 days)
Complete any of the 3 city routes virtually
Platinum badge (earn all badges)

Beyond just going the distance, there are audio-guided verified routes in communities across every province and territory telling local stories that inspire us all to be active. You can follow these routes in person, or enjoy them remotely using RunGo’s virtual modes. You’ll explore surprising audio stories along the way. Just like travelling virtually across the country!

Let’s Move Canada 2025!

The Let’s Move Canada Challenge 2025 will begin on National Health and Fitness Day, June 7th, and conclude on National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21st. This Challenge is an initiative of the Canadian Health and Fitness Institute and the Indigenous Physical Activity & Cultural Circle.

Be part of a movement! Move with Canadians from coast to coast to coast for 15 days and contribute to your personal goals and our collective goals! Connect with stories and places across Canada. Along the way, earn digital badges for a variety of fun achievements. All activities are welcome, from cycling and running, to canoeing and yoga!

The Challenge will begin on National Health and Fitness Day (June 7, 2025) and end on National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21, 2025).

To Get Started:

Download the free app
Create an account
Click the link to join the challenge
Complete any route. It will sync automatically.
Follow the leaderboard

To Earn Badges:

Join the challenge!
Complete any of the 22 city routes
Complete 5 hours total (in 14 days)
Complete 15 hours total (in 14 days)
Complete any of the 3 city routes virtually
Platinum badge (earn all badges)

Let’s Move Canada 2024!

Let’s get active from coast to coast to coast for 243,042 hours!

OUR CHALLENGE!

Partnering with Strava, Canadians will join forces to complete a single, large goal over 19 days from June 3 to June 21.

By walking, jogging, canoeing, dancing and more — in the city, through nature or on the water — together Canadians will move total of 243,042 hours from National Health and Fitness Day (June 3, 2023) to National Indigenous People’s Day (June 21, 2023).

Why 243,042? It’s the length of Canada’s coastline! We have the longest coast in the world and we want to make Canada the fittest nation in the world.

Canadians can participate as individuals or a group. They just have to download the free Strava app and join our Challenge.

During this period, IPACC will host National Indigenous Physical Activity Awareness Week (NIPAAW), which happens between June 14 – June 21, 2023.

In addition to tracking your activity time in Strava, take a picture and post it to Facebook and Instagram with the hashtag: #LetsMoveCanada, #BougeonsCanada and register for a daily draw.

Tag us in your photo @letsmovecanada!

Join the challenge HERE!

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Let’s Move Canada!

The Indigenous Physical Activity and Cultural Circle, and the Canadian Health and Fitness Institute have created a collective challenge, where Canadians join forces to complete a single, large goal over 19 days from June 3 to June 21

Plan your own NIPAAW!

Please download and share the IPACC National Indigenous Physical Activity Awareness Week Toolkit to learn the steps to creating your own NIPAA Week!

Shannon Field, a registered Kinesiologist and Metis graduate student, developed a toolkit to support friends, families, and communities to be physically active together through a variety of traditional Indigenous games. This toolkit has been designed to be inclusive, so that everyone can join in!