PHOTO: One of the tiny beaded orange shirt pins created by Okanagan School of Education staff. Photography by Amanda Lamberti.
Project Name
Learning With, From, and Alongside Syilx Community Members
Team Members
Danielle Lamb, Kristin Schuppener
Unit
Okanagan School of Education
Project Summary
Members of the Syilx community are leading a series of experiential learning and unlearning sessions for Okanagan School of Education staff, in order to celebrate and share local Syilx histories and connections to the land, culture, and understandings of self in the world.
In the first workshop, held August 9, 2022, Kyla Shields of the Syilx Nation led a beading session in which she shared the local tradition of beading and the history of orange shirts.
