What is important in your life? What cultural teachings guide you? How do we overcome difficult times and persevere?
Grade 6 students at McKitrick Community School examined questions about life challenges and the teachings that help them overcome adversity and trauma, build courage and enhance healing. The students turned their gaze inward, to consider their own story, their personal values, virtues and the qualities they see in themselves. Their written reflections and art work illustrate their understanding of the Sacred Teachings, sometimes also called the Seven Grandfather Teachings (Anishnaabe) and also Sweetgrass Teachings (Nēhiyawēwin or Cree nation).
Quentin Weenie, from Sweetgrass First Nation, shares the sacred teachings from a Nēhiyawēwin perspective. Sylvia Weenie, elder and Chief of Stoney Knoll First Nation provided guidance and language for the poster. Download the poster.
This PD video documents the creative process for writing and creating the book Living the Sacred Teachings. Grade 6 students, from McKitrick Community School in North Battleford, Saskatchewan share their learning along with teachers and administrators in the school.
A Living Sky School Division project