100 Mile Elementary
As we learn to walk together, we do so when we cultivate understanding, compassion, and connection. Students of 100 Mile Elementary were able to attend pow wows at both Tsq'escen and T’exelcemc for a first-hand expereience of the healing power and beauty of dance and drum. Primary students that stayed on site created their own orange shirts and statements about how they will move forward as people seeking to make reconciliation reality with statements such as, "I will be kind," "I will try to understand others," and "I will be loving." Intermediate students came together in an assembly to discuss how a legacy of dishonesty and hurt was created upon the first treaties in their misleading and taking advantage of indigenous peoples, and how cultural genocide has had tremendously hurtful and lasting impacts. As a whole school, we then walked together while Mrs. Dixon offered a smudge for any and all members of our school community.
