Little Feathers celebrate their graduation

June 21, 2018

Shortreed gathered in assembly on National Indigenous People’s Day to celebrate a few kids from their school. Little Feathers is a program for indigenous children in kindergarten. For their graduation, the Little Feathers kids were blanketed and given cedar headbands, in an honouring ceremony, just before the assembly.

They then joined the assembly, while the staff and the kids drummed and sang a First Nations song to welcome them and congratulate them. Words of thanks and congratulations were given by elder Josette, and the schools Aboriginal Support Worker, Patricia Elson.

The school then learned the purpose of the blankets: to cover the wearer with love, prayer, and good thoughts; as well as the purpose of the cedar: a sacred medicine, and a way to keep in good thoughts.