The Leslie W. Turner Traditional Pow-wow is set to be held next weekend.
UCN’s cultural coordinator for the Thompson campus, Karl Laubmann [lawb-ma] says the theme for this year’s event is “honouring our children, graduates, and graduands”.
Laubmann explains the reason why the theme was chosen was because of the discovery of unmarked graves of Indigenous children who were forced to attend school at a residential school in BC, whom UCN wanted to honour.
He adds it’s also connected to the Truth and Reconciliation report that came out in 2015, specifically the section that addresses residential schools.
“We are going to be honouring the children, the parents and many of the graduates and granduands who either are first, second or even third residential school survivors which are children of parents or grandparents who went to these residential schools in Canada. We will also acknowledge all the graduates and graduands who are graduating this year.”
The Leslie W. Turner Traditional Pow-wow will take place at Wapanohk Community School on Saturday, June 18th.
For more details, tune in to Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.
