Cultural Supports

Our cultural connections include a wide range of workshops, ceremonies, and activities. 

• Awareness and appreciation days
• Blanket Exercises
• Elder in Residence
• Friendship Circles
• Makers Markets
• Medicine Walks
• Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Walk + Moose Hide Campaign
• Pipe Ceremonies
• Powwows
• Storytelling
• Soup & Bannock
• Teachings (hair, bison, moss bag)
• Tipi Raisings
• Workshops (Beading, Ribbon Skirt)

Elders are a key way to connect with culture. As knowledge keepers, they are here to support you, answer questions and provide guidance.

Among their activities:

• hosting Sharing Circles
• participating in speaking series
• visiting classrooms
• offering opening and closing prayers at convocation
• conducting ceremonies
• sharing traditional teachings

Lakeland College committed to the principles of the Truth and Reconciliation report several years ago. Over time, these activities based on teaching all Canadians the truth about Indigenous experiences resulting from the national policies of assimilation and the Indian Residential School system.

Establishing Indigenous Support Services is one example of the many initiatives at the college. Other examples include:

• creating the Otôtemiwewin Student Lounge on the Lloydminster campus
• raising the Treaty 6 and Alberta Métis flags at both campuses
• incorporating a land acknowledgement at all ceremonies and gatherings
• raising a tipi on both campuses with assistance from elders
• sponsoring staff trips to the Onion Lake PowWow
• soup and bannock sharing on both campuses