Indigenous Culture Camp returns to RDP after year-one success
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Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) will host its second Indigenous Culture Camp aimed at tackling educational calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC).
The event is a collaboration with Red Deer Public Schools and Red Deer Catholic Regional Schools, and provides faculty, educators, and some students with the opportunity to learn from Indigenous knowledge keepers and Elders.
“We primarily focused on staff and faculty for all of our divisions, both RDP and the Public and Catholic school divisions, and we did that intentionally because under the TRC calls for action, there’s specific calls for education at all levels,” says Lloyd Desjarlais, dean of Indigenous initiatives at RDP. “We wanted to address that piece as institutions to have our faculty and our staff be exposed to some of the cultural teachings and what it means to be Indigenous and all those different things, things they can learn and use in their daily workings.”
Some of the featured activities include traditional Cree teachings about tipis, medicine, relationships, and powwows; Blackfoot teachings about history, traditions, and language; Nakota culture, way of life, and worldview; Métis dancing and fiddle music, and much more.
