The chapter concentrates on Ojibway, Cree and Mi’kmaw sweats in their shared and differing forms. “Native elders’ views represent their views in 2024 as expressed on different Native websites. This chapter delves into the actual sweat lodge which I argue has elements in common with the Big House of the Delaware and many other types of saunas, temples, shrines, or ancient spiritual systems. The chapter on the Delaware Big House already describes the ceremonial and ritual aspects of the ancient ceremonial matrix with key elements of their notion of sacred architecture. It is important to learn about the sweat lodge through Indigenous people themselves, not Western scholars however well-intentioned the latter may be in striving after accurate and objective descriptions. I received funding for Native North American and also a Sami student to gather information on the old ways themselves, from their own communities. As a consequence, to avoid Western bias, Native students at Simone de Beauvoir Institute participated in a research project that I supervised and led at Concordia University on “healing politics” in 1997. I include here extracts of conversations and interviews by the students who carried them out on their reservations or in Montreal in l996-97. They are first-hand reports of how the sweat lodge was used at this time period by men and women with a great deal of insider information on the use of herbs and other healing remedies. The interviews also offer important views on how violence against women has impacted on Native communities and how pivotal the sweat ceremonies were in addressing the traumas. They carry and reflect elements of World Renewal, collective and individual recovery and rebirth in a modern form.