Indigenous Education

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Audio: Alexis Albrecht, English and French teacher, & Shannon Lawrance, First Nations Metis and Inuit Graduation Coach, Sioux North High School

Audio Transcript

Click here to hear from KPDSB students about their recent trip to Beaver Brae Secondary School in Kenora to learn traditional teachings.

Audio: Valleyview Public School Students

Click here to hear KPDSB students share a dialogue presentation offering an example of the work being done on Language Preservation within classrooms throughout KPDSB.

Audio: Bryson & JC, Red Lake-Madsen Public School Students

4 students stand atop a quinzee.
5 students pose with their Paddle for Credit certificates.
5 students stand together at a fire outdoors.
A student examines his small net near a creek.
A student learns how to clean a hide on a frame.
A student practices fire starting outdoors.
Class poses in front of a winter campfire.
Close up of the finishing assembly of a teepee
Close up of wild rice in a pot.
Cloth being wrapped around a teepee frame.
Crew sets up a teepee to be erected.
Demonstration of a hide being cleaned at Fall Harvest.
Dog sled teams run down a trail onto the ice.
Elder and students sit around a fire inside a teepee.
Fish are removed from a net at Fall Harvest.
Five canoes on the water.
Five students sit under a tarp fort outdoors.
Four students assemble hide drums outdoors.
Group erects the 3 key poles of a teepee.
Group of students roasting hot dogs on a winter fire.
High school students in canoes pose for the camera.
Juniper tea is served in a teepee.
Setting up a large tarp roof at an outdoor ampitheatre.
Several canoes grouped together at the bottom of small waterfall.
Staff and students on a hike in the autumn forest.
Staff pose with an Elder at Fall Harvest.
Student holds a large chunk of meat at Fall Harvest.
Students observe a ceremony inside a teepee.
Student rides a fat bike on a winter trail.
Student shows off a large pike caught ice fishing.
Student shows off a perch he caught ice fishing.
Student smiles at the camera outdoors.
Student tries plucking a dead duck at Fall Harvest.
Student works on a project outdoors using empty 2L pop containers.
Students and staff around a cooking fire outdoors.
Students and staff ice fishing.
Students camping near the shore in autumn.
Students chop firewood at a Fall Harvest.
Students examine moose parts at a Fall Harvest.
Students gather outside a teepee for a demonstration.
Students pose in front of a framed hide.
Students pose on a snowhill and rock in the winter.
Students rock climbing outdoors.
Students showcase their outdoor lunch in the forest.
Students use bone handles to clean a hide.
Students wander around at Fall Harvest.
Students wanter through displays set up for Fall Harvest.
Teepee frame as seen from the bottom looking up at the middle.
Teepee outside at Sioux North High School.
Three students butcher a moose on a table.
Three students clean a moose hide on a frame.
Three students laugh and feed a doe standing within arms reach.
Three students pose wearing life jackets outdoors.
Three students trace fabric for gauntlets.
Two students clean a bear hide on a frame.
Two students pose for the camera while sitting at the Fall Harvest.
Young girl in a ribbon skirt.
Young student hugs a wolf pelt.