NLSD receives provincial award for Indigenization efforts [Video]

“I’m feeling very proud of our staff who do the work every day. It’s very exciting and we’re proud of that accomplishment and … it’s something that couldn’t have been done without everyone’s involvement and everyone buying in, and so it’s been awesome to see that work happening right throughout the school division in every community and every school.”

Examples of Indigenization undertaken by Northern Lights include the renaming of three schools, changing the school division’s logo, supporting teacher education programs, launching a new Land, Language and Culture Program, hosting an annual Indigenous Language Summit, and offering Indigenous language immersion classes in Beauval, Cumberland House, La Loche, La Ronge and Pinehouse Lake.

There were 3,910 students across 20 schools across Northern Saskatchewan in the last academic year under Northern Lights. Nearly 90 per cent of those students identify as Indigenous.

The award received by the school comes with a $5,000 …