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IB NEWS CATHOLIC BOARD EMBRACES INDIGENOUS TEACHINGS EVENING OF CUISINE AND CULTURE PART OF LARGER EXPERIENCE ROLAND CILLIERS. rcilliers@metroland.com It was a first-of-its-kind event for the Halton Catho- lic District School Board (aCDSB). e Indigenous Cuisine and’ Culture evening drew by the HCDSB, the event featured a three-course dinner, an art show by stu- dents anda keynote speech author Waubgeshig Ree. The evening was billed as a unique hands-on-op- portunity to connect with Indigenous culture She y Sacvil, ‘Indige- nous education adviser at the HCDSB, said she hoped attendees left the evening with a new, more open per- spective “Our “elders always say to us that the journey from the head to the heart i is the at people take away from here today is that there's a little piece of their heart that's open." At the centre of the eve- ning was a dinner service from 4 Winds Indigenous Catering. Dishes on the menu included sweet grass créme brulée, and a medi- cine maple and beetroot salmon with wild rice and roasted carrots. Chef Douglas Trudeau, the owner of 4 Winds, de- tradition alive by special! ingin high-quality fresh in- gredient's supplied by Tur- te (sland with medicin ised Indigenous tradi- tions, Graham Paine/ Metroland Sherry Saevil, co-founder of Grandmother's Voice and an Indigenous education advisor at Halton Catholic District School Board, takes part in a smudging ceremony performed by Doug Doolittle of the Six Nations of the Grand River as pai rt of an evening of Indigenous Cuisine and Culture at Country Heritage Park. "I'm here to put Indige- nous food on the map," said Trudeau. it cuisine is not t, ma ates ‘chat ere itr re- ally awesome and cool and humbling to do what I get to do, which is reintroduc- ing food that probably should've never been taken from us.’ The event was one piece of a larger trend to add more Indigenous aspects to the board. HCDSB recently approved its first school named after an Indigenous person with St. Kateri Tek- akwitha Catholic Second- ary S School nglis! Underctanding | contenee. rary Bist Nations, Métis and Inuit Voices" will Jaunch in ‘ine’ next school year as a core Grade 11 pro- gram at four schools. “To be able to have that in schools for students to encounter is wonderful be- cause it is through the arts often that we have our per- spectives shifted and changed," said John Klein, HCDSB director of educa- on. “It's through the arts of- ten that we touch our hearts with others and that we can change. And so, we're looking forward to this and hearing how the students embrace it, how the teachers embrace it as ell," said Klein. Closing out the evening was author and journalist Waubgeshig Rice. He told the audience, which was rimarily comprised of teachers, parents and board stalf, About his j jour- m Wa- saaksine net Ni ation to becoming a bestselling au- thor. Rice said he hopes the audience comes away from his speech with the sense that individual educators havea lot of power to effect S. convey is that being em- powered through culture, through storytelling, through education, can re- life, you it teachers really have great- er influence than I think a lot of them understand or believe they have and that's something to be nurtured." (CT=1 mre) at-ym.e) a4 Tidal (exexe || from A to £202 ‘81 AeW ‘Aepsiny | senveg elayeo | SZ support Zed Craig, Cogeco Tech. (6 » Colelan (exero] ero) alal=reidlelal COGeCO woo"uo}|ByapIsUt