About Aboriginal Achievement Week
Each year in March the university hosts Aboriginal Achievement Week (AAW) to showcase Aboriginal culture and excellence in research and academia on campus. Everyone is welcome to attend Aboriginal Achievement Week events.
Attend events. Win a laptop.
If current U of S students attend seven or more events, they will be entered to win a laptop and other prizes. To be entered into the draw, you must track the events you attend in an Event Tracker booklet, which are available at the Aboriginal Students’ Centre.
MarMon19
AAW Pipe Ceremony
8 a.m.Rugby Chapel - University of Saskatchewan
Walter and Maria Linklater will be leading the ceremony (and will explain the ceremony as they perform it).
For more information, contact Bob Badger at (306) 966-5790.
AAW Hot Breakfast
9:30amASC, 110 Marquis Hall
Crafting with Elder Maria Linklater
10:30-12 p.mASC, 110 Marquis Hall
Signing with the Office of the Treaty Commisioner
1p.m-2:30 p.m.ASC, 110 Marquis Hall
Indigenous Students' Council Banquet
5:30-9 p.m.Exeter Room, Marquis Hall
The keynote speaker is Suzanne Shawbonquit, founder/executive director of youthinnovation.ca.
For more information, contact Jared Brown at (306) 381-9612.
MarTue20
Presentation on Traditional Drumming and Dancing
8:30-10 a.m.ASC, Marquis Hall
Panel Discussion: "Dispelling the Myth"
10:30 to 12 p.m.Convocation Hall
Film " Jim Setee: The Way Home"
12-1 p.m.Murray Library, Collaborative Learning Lar (CLL), First Floor
Elders teaching of Native Spirituality 101
1-2:30 p.m.ASC, Marquis Hall
USSU Pride Centre and ASC Bingo
5 to 8 p.m.Lower Place Riel, International Student and Study Abroad Centre, Training Room, room 70
At this informal and fun bingo game, members of the community will be available to answer questions about the Queer and Aboriginal community. Bingo dabbers will be provided.
Sponsored by the USSU Pride Centre and the Aboriginal Students’ Centre.
MarWed21
Anti-Racist Workshop
9 to 11:30amPhysics Building, room 129
The workshop will help emerging student leaders nurture their social justice ideologies. Workshop presenters will discuss common myths and prejudices that surround Aboriginal people. This leadership development workshop date falls on the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Seating is limited. Register with Annie Battiste at annie.battiste@usask.ca before March 19.
Soup and Bannock
11:30a.m to 1:30 p.mASC, Room 110 Marquis Hall
Aboriginal Pre-Health/Health Science Role Model Session
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Health Sciences Building, room B111
The Aboriginal pre-health science/health science role model session is an informal session for any interested Aboriginal high school, undergraduate and health science students to attend. Role models will be available to offersome words of inspiration and encouragement. Students will be offered an opportunity to speak to whatever they are comfortable sharing about their own journey through education and life.
For more information, contact Valerie Arnault-Pelletier at valerie.arnault@usask.ca.
AAW Dance Performance
1:30 to 3:30pm Convocation Hall
Sweat Lodge
4:30pm leave U of S; 5 p.m. sweatYarrow Youth Farm
Transportation is provided and pre-registration is required. Bus leaves at 4:30 p.m. with the Sweat starting at 5 p.m. Contact Bob Badger at (306) 966-5790 for more information and/or to register.
Sponsored by the Aboriginal Students’ Centre.
MarThu22
Native Spirituality 101
9:30 to 11 a.m.International Student and Study Abroad Centre Training Room Room 70 Lower Place Riel
Beading with Marylou Mintram
10:30 a.m. to 12ASC, room 110, Marquis Hall
Aboriginal Graduate Student Panel and Luncheon
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Education Building, room 2001
Graduate students or those interested in becoming a graduate student are invited to share a lunch and discuss the best way graduate programs can help you achieve your goals.
Lunch will be provided.
The Aboriginal Student Achievement Office Pizza Lunch
11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.Arts Building, room 248
Meet the Aboriginal Student Achievement Office staff at a pizza lunch.
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Science.
Guest Speaker: Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild
2:30 to 3:30 p.m.Thorvaldson Building, room 105
Commissioner Chief Wilton Littlechild will speak on the mandate of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Saskatchewan Nation event it will be hosting in Saskatoon from June 21 to 24, 2012.
Sponsored by the Department of Native Studies.
Film: “The Pisim Project”
1:30 to 3 p.m.Arts Building, room 241 (Neatby Timlin Theaterr)
"The Pisim Project” follows a group of high school students from Charlebois Community School in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan as they design and build an energy efficient house based on the footprint of their ancestor’s homes. Directed and produced by Angela Mae Edmunds/Marcel Petit.
Presented by The College of Engineering and Cameco Access Program for Engineering and Science.
MarFri23
STARS (Student Teachers’ Anti-Racism Society) Conference
9:30 to 11 a.m.Education Building, room 1004
OTC Treaty Discussion with Lyndon Linklater
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.Aboriginal Students’ Centre, Marquis Hall, room 110
Study Abroad Opportunities
Traditional Technology Surpasses Modern Technology
1 to 3 p.m. Aboriginal Students’ Centre, Marquis Hall, room 110
Traditional knowledge and modern engineering design meet in this unique presentation on canoe transportation! See beautiful handcrafted birch bark models alongside computer generated images. Award winner at the SK First Nations Science Fair, this project is on its way to the Canada Wide Science Fair in Charlottetown, PEI May 12-19, 2012.
Refreshments and informal question and answer session will follow a brief presentation.
Sponsored by the College of Engineering.
ITEP Annual Round Dance
4 p.m. to 4 a.mWhitecap Dakota Elementary School on Whitecap First Nations
