From a new arts hotel and luxury tipis to four star lodges, travellers can immerse themselves  even more in  aboriginal culture

Catching your zizzis while immersed in First Nations culture no longer means roughing it - even tipis these days feature hardwood floors and 500 thread count linen. Longhouse style lodges are garnering four stars for both aboriginal design and fusion cusine. Come for the cultural authenticity : binge on bannock and salmon. No need to pack a dreamcatcher.

Canada's first aboroginal hotel opened this past summer. First Nations artists residing in downtown Vancouver's Skwachays Lodge - with whom you can mingle - were paired with interior designers to create 18 unique rooms filled with carvings, native blankets and paintings. A 12 m (40 ft) totem pole crowns a traditional longhouse on the roof of the heritage building, which also features a sweat lodge and a fair trade art gallery. Revenues benefit the non - profit BC Native Housing Corporation.

Overlooking the ocean in Uclulet on Vancouver Island's west coast, Wya Point Resort, offers contemporary , aboriginal flavoured luxury that includes yurts with a view. It's the only place in Canada with First Nation  Surfing instructors . Meanwhile on the Kitasoo Xai'xais coastal BC ancestoral lands, the Spirit Bear Lodge's guides are savvy to the whereabouts of the Great Bear Rainforests elusive Spirit Bear, a rare white black bear. Watch orca's and sea lions swim past the window of the waterfront, longhouse inspired lodge before feasting on traditionally prepared local salmon.

In tiny Tlell on Haida Gwaii, a high end First Nations operated lodge recently morphed into Haida House, offering the unique experience of touring mystical islands, including the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve and Skidegate's Haida Heritage Centre, with a local native guide.

Saddle up and arrive by horseback at your luxury tipi , complete with wooden floors, down comforters, furs and buffalo hides  to lounge upon as part of one of the aboriginal adventures along the Great Spirit Circle Trail in Ontario's Manatoulin Island. The experience also includes dining on Ojibway  cuisine cooked over an open fire, learning to ride bareback and siwm with your horse, paddling a canoe and foraging for food. At breakfast bite into warm , fresh bannock bread.

Explore Northern Ontario's James Bay, in a traditional freight canoe with guides from the modern, nature-friendly Cree Village Eco Lodge. Dinner might be bison on caribou. Prowl tiny Moosenee and Moose Factory, an early Hudson's Bay Company post, buying handmade mocassins from local women.

Sleep in a traditional longhouse tended by an aboriginal firekeeper at Hotel Musee Premieres Nations in Wendake,  the Huron - Wendat Nation homeland just outside Quebec City. Or stay in their four star lodge, dining on traditional specialities like mugwort roasted pheasant and red deer. Experience a Labrador tea ceremony, then tour the museum and historic sites with artifacts dating to the 16th century.

Learn to bake traditional bread in hot sand, hear the music and see the artifacts of New Brunswick's 3000 year old Mi'kmaq First Nation culture at Metepenagiag Heritage Park, the archeological site of an ancient settlement. Stay overnight at the Outdoor Adventure Lodge, dining on gourmet aboriginal cuisine, such s freshly roasted moose.

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