Bring us your clothing. mînawâ grades every piece and routes it where it belongs — purchased for resale, diverted to the community closet, or sent to textile recovery. Nothing goes to waste without consideration.
wear • share • renew ➡
OUR STORY
Clothing that comes back to community.
mînawâ — Plains Cree for "again, once more" — began with a simple belief: clothing holds more life than a landfill will ever honour. Too much is discarded. Too much ends up as waste rather than in the hands of someone who needs it.
Rooted in Indigenous values of reciprocity, care for the land, and community responsibility, mînawâ accepts clothing from the public and puts every piece through a grading process. Pieces that meet resale quality are purchased. Everything else is diverted — to the community closet or to textile recovery partners — so nothing lands in a landfill by default.
This is not fast fashion. This is a regenerative loop — where your clothing is assessed with care and sent exactly where it belongs.
HOW IT WORKS
Bring us your clothing. We'll find it a path.
Drop off your clothing at a mînawâ intake event. Every piece is assessed using our grading rubric — condition, wearability, brand, and demand all factor in. Resale-ready pieces are purchased on the spot. Everything else is accepted as a diversion and routed to where it will do the most good.
STEP 1
You drop off your clothes.
Bring your pieces to a mînawâ pop-up intake event. No appointment needed — just show up with what you no longer need.
STEP 2
We grade every piece.
Each item is assessed on condition, wearability, brand, and demand. The grade determines the stream it enters — nothing is skipped.
STREAM 1: PURCHASED
WEAR
Resale-ready pieces are bought directly from you and listed in our curated shop on Poshmark (and soon on this website). Quality-assessed, fairly priced, given a second life.
STREAM 2: DIVERTED
SHARE
Wearable clothing that doesn't meet in-demand resale is accepted as a community diversion at accessible prices, through the mînawâ community closet.
STREAM 3: DIVERTED
RENEW
Textiles beyond wear are accepted as a diversion, upcycled into new products, or sent to certified recycling partners—kept out of landfills and returned to the material cycle with care.
FOUNDER
Cianna Fayant Gill
Member of Otipemisiwak Métis Government and Fishing Lake Métis Settlement
After losing her dad and watching her family's company close, thrift stores became a lifeline during her twenties. That experience left her with something: a clear view of what secondhand systems offer, and what they quietly fail to do — and who ends up carrying the weight of waste they never created. Including Indigenous communities here in Canada.
mînawâ is her answer to that.
The name comes from Plains Cree: ᒦᓇᐚ — again, once more. Returning things to usefulness. Returning value to community. Returning to a way of relating to our material world that never needed to be invented, only remembered.