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Dream Speaker Heritage Literacy Project

Community leaders, storytellers, historians, musicians and artists made presentations at the school. Pablo Russell, historian and researcher, spoke to students in Alvine Wolfleg's Blackfoot Cultural Studies class.  

Story tellers Mary Hays and Louis Soop showed storytelling techniques to senior high students and Joan Cardinal-Schubert, a Red Deer artist, spent two days at the school as artist-in-residence, working  with the art classes.  

Junior high students, under the direction of Ruby Metchewais, created a jingle dress.  With the help of Christine Little Chief, they made a moss bag for carrying a baby. Students also engaged in cross-cultural learning when the One World African and Latin Drumming Company presented a workshop that compared drumming styles and the historical uses of drums by cultures living in oppressive situations. 

The pictures on this website document the process of the Dream Speaker Heritage Literacy project from the original planning session, through the class events and activities, to the conclusion of the project when the students made their presentations during the Heritage Literacy Fair.

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