University of Lethbridge honoured southern Alberta’s indigenous community this week. The U of L held its annual Native Awareness Week. From opening ceremonies to two distinct cultures coming together, I had the chance to find out more about this unique week. Tawnya Plain Eagle has more.
Through the power of song, the First Nations community joined the University of Lethbridge for its annual Native Awareness Week.
Students, staff and community members joined together as a mini Pow-Wow celebration was held to kick off the week long celebration.
Martha Many Grey horses the director for the FMNI Centre says post-secondary institutions often celebrate Native Awareness Week based on the social justice movement.
“Our culture ways as members of the Blackfoot confederacy are still pretty solid, we still have traditional societies that go back for a long time,” she says.
Many Grey Horses says it’s important that the students and faculty at …