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By Michael Joel-Hansen

National Indigenous Peoples Day

Sask Polytechnic ready to host online celebrations

Jun 18, 2020 | 5:37 PM

It’s National Indigenous Peoples’ Day Sunday and Saskatchewan Polytechnic is ready to help celebrate the occasion with a number of activities on Friday.

Due to the COVID-19 virus, activities will be completely online and streamed via Zoom.

The event is set to get underway at 9:30 a.m. with children’s story time. The festivities will wrap up at 2:45 p.m. with bannock making lessons which will include Jennifer Brockman, the Prince Albert Indigenous Students Centre coordinator.

Before activities get underway, a variety of dignitaries will bring greetings including Chief Perry Bellegarde from the Assembly of First Nations.

9:30 a.m. – 10 a.m.

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Children’s story time:
Join Brandi Kohl, Regina Indigenous Students’ Centre coordinator, as she shares some short Indigenous stories.

10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m.

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Join Anita Cameron, Moose Jaw Indigenous Students’ Centre coordinator to hear some highlights from Indigenous Strategy for this academic year through a video collage.

12:30 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.

Powwow Fitness:
Join Deanna Speidel, Indigenous strategy interim director, for a powwow fitness class.

2:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Traditional hand games:
Join Sanford Strongarm Senior to learn how to play some traditional Indigenous hand games with your family.

1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Learn how to bake bannock:
Jennifer Brockman, Prince Albert Indigenous Students’ Centre coordinator, will share a brief history of bannock and share the steps on how to make oven-baked bannock. Kyla Morin, Saskatoon Indigenous Students’ Centre coordinator, will also share how to make fried bannock.

3 p.m. –3:30 p.m.

Métis music with the Boyers:
Join Phil and Dallas Boyer as they play fiddle music to celebrate National Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

Deanna Speidel, Indigenous Strategy Director for Saskatchewan Polytechnic said all campuses have marked the day for the past 10 years.

One way to acknowledge the day is to raise the Treaty 4 and 6 flags at all campuses. Speidel said marking the day is important for the institution and that they know celebrating online is not the same as doing so in person.

“We still wanted to make a contribution to our students and our communities and our partners,” she said.

People who are interested in watching can go to Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s website.

Editor’s note: this story was corrected to make clear National Indigenous Peoples’ Day is on Sunday not Friday as originally reported.

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