Thanks to all the educators who joined us on May 28th for our webinar – Finding Hope Through Connecting to the Land. We are grateful to Chief Joe Pierre for sharing the Ktunaxa Creation Story and inspiring educators to help connect their students to the land. The webinar was recorded with permission and can be viewed above.
A written version of the Creation story can be found here: http://www.ktunaxa.org/who-we-are/creation-story/
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We’d also like to thank our partners who were instrumental in making this webinar happen:
Classroom to CommunitiesC2C is having their annual provincial conference on Oct 23, 2020. More info can be found here – https://c2c-bc.org/conference/ |
Columbia Basin Environmental Education NetworkCBEEN has more webinars for educators that can be found here – https://cbeen.ca/webinars/ |
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