S.S. Day 2- Falon Manywounds and Council Practice

Today was another great day down at Stampede School!

First off, thank you to all our volunteers! We hope you enjoyed yourselves. 

Today we visited with Falon Manywounds, the 2020 Indigenous Princess. She is a 25yr old nutritionist and personal trainer. She is spending the year public speaking, educating people on her culture and way of life. Students had a great visit with her, she answered many questions the kids had and she demonstrated her Jingle Dance, wearing the Jingle Dress she made herself!

There are over 100 Jingles on Falon's dress. There is one other type of Jingle dress that has 365 jingles on it. We wondered how heavy that other type of Jingle dress might be....atleast 3 times heavier than Falon's!!

We practiced our dancing learned yesterday from Elder Shirley, and reminded ourselves of the community efforts children were always a part of; animal care, paddling canoes and cleaning tepees.

In the afternoon we visited with Austin, the Calgary Stampede Environmentalist. He shared with us about Council Practice. Students were tasked to sit with nature, still and quiet for 15mins. They were to visit with one thing in nature and then share their conversation! They were invited to share at Council, in 1st person, anything their visitor shared with them. This was a fun, creative and playful way to interact with the environment and think about how it might feel, based on the actions of everyone thing and everyone around it. Building empathy and acknowledgment for the land.

Students sat and talked to trees, snow, bushes, birds, branches, berries etc.

Students then shared at Council, in 1st person, if they choose to.

Even some brave adults did!!!

All in all, a great 2nd day.

Tomorrow is horse day! Dress in your least best clothes and wear proper outdoor boots!