The camp was held on Tuesday, June 4, 2024. We had 38 students in total and six adults from French Immersion join us. Half of them were exchange students from Quebec the other half were from Scott Bateman. The weather wasn’t great but we managed in the rain.
We started the day off by having the students learn about our land base site. Gave them information what we do at the site, whose space it is and how we learn Indigenous way of life at the camps. We did introductions. We had Diane Buck showing how to make goose soup over the fire. Myrna made bison and potatoes over the fire and fried Bannock with students in the tent. We also had deer meat, potatoes and a variety of veggies for our lunch feast.
We had Andrea Whaley helping in the kitchen with veggies, and cutting and preparing with students. Serving food and helping keep everything clean and organized.
In the KSD tent, we had Margaret and Dan Head-Steppan doing drum teachings and animal teachings with the students. In the large tipi, we had Clinton Whitehead doing medicinal plant teachings. The students rotated between the two stations. We had six students help with cooking the feast in the big tent.
It was raining and the original plan was to do half go fishing at the river and half do the stations, then switch. But only a couple of students went fishing. One student caught a pickerel and one of the chaperones cleaned it and they bought it back to the site and Diane Buck prepared it over the fire for him to eat. He was pretty happy about that.
We then had a feast together at lunchtime. There was not much food left at the end. I am glad they tried the traditional foods that were prepared. Overall it was a good day, the students were well behaved and didn’t seem to mind the rain too much.
