Bringing a wide range of people together to learn encouraged meaningful relationship-building during the trip.
Learning about Métis traditions during Culture Days
Traditional languages provide insight into heritage
Culture camp nurtures relationships
An annual Indigenous celebration brings school kids together to restore language and culture
Young participants recently had the opportunity to spend a week surviving without many of our modern conveniences.
This past summer, a unique camp offered parents a chance to learn and explore traditional First Nations parenting practices with their children.
The Cultural Arts Camp, hosted by the Birch Narrows Dene Community School, has started something they can’t stop, and its positive impact will be long lasting for the community of Turnor Lake.
“Love Your Language, Speak with Pride.” This was the message bestowed on over 450 First Nations students at the province’s first-ever Indigenous language Festival.
For several months in late 2013, about 20 senior citizens from the Regina-area have been creating memory boxes and paintings based on their own personal stories and narratives.
In May 2013, students from Oskayak High school in Saskatoon travelled north to the shores of Waterhen First Nation by the Meadow Lake Provincial Park.
Building community ties and connections is challenging for large, rural school divisions. However, some divisions make these connections a vital part of their students’ education.
In the 1980’s, Sam Herman, then mayor of La Loche, encouraged community members to dress up in old-time clothing for a culture day celebration at the local elementary school. Thus, the Yanessa Days were born.
