KAMSACK — Keeseekoose First Nation celebrated National Indigenous Peoples Day with a June 22 event at Madge Lake.
The event featured knowledge keepers, including a moccasin maker, a drummermaker, a traditional dreamcatcher maker, a mossbag maker and a ribbon skirt maker. As well, Keeseekoose First Nation staff set up three tipis and organized a Saulteaux language bingo.
Clarisse Straight, councilor at Keeseekoose First Nation, said the event served to honour “how valuable our culture, our language, our our traditions, our knowledge keepers, our dancers, how important all of that is, and [how] it all works together in helping us recognize Truth and Reconciliation.”
