Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/09/2022
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre
Categories
The Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre is holding a National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day event. People are encouraged to wear orange. The event starts with a pipe ceremony by Alma Desjarlais at 10 a.m. (at the Friendship Centre). There will also be Treaty 8 drummers. At 11:30 a.m., people will walk from the town office to the Friendship Centre. A stew and bannock lunch will be provided at the Friendship Centre.
This event is to bring awareness to the history of Indian residential schools in Canada and the intergenerational trauma this has inflicted on First Nations, Metis, and Inuit people in Canada.
Time: 10 a.m. pipe ceremony, 11:30 walk (starts at Town office), afterward lunch
Location: The morning and lunch activities are at the Slave Lake Native Friendship Centre; the walk starts at the Town of Slave Lake office and goes along Main St. to the Friendship Centre (it starts at 11:30 a.m.)
Cost: free.