Sask. Polytechnic hosts Indigenous relay
Students at the Saskatchewan Polytechnic campus stepped back in time for a few hours on Thursday afternoon.
The school hosted an Indigenous relay, which consisted of running, a loop of the exhibition grounds on a bicycle, canoeing across the river, pack carrying, log cutting, fire starting and water boiling. Eight teams of students raced against their peers and one team of Polytechnic staff.
“It’s basically skills people needed to survive in Saskatchewan,” Shelley Belhumeur, an Indigenous student advisor at the Polytechnic campus said.
Belhumeur, an organizer of the relay, said the race has taken place for the last 15 years, and is part of Sask. Polytechnic’s ongoing shift towards reconciliation. She explained Sask. Poly was going though an “Indigenization,” and the relay was part of this.