Treaties Recognition Week in Saskatchewan has been established by the government from May 21 to 27. The Settlements in Saskatchewan are formal arrangements between the Crown and First Countries with their assumptions and commitments.
Treaties Recognition Week was first suggested by students in Justin Freitag’s Grade 5 class at Ecole Lumsden Elementary. The students were inspired to take their own collective action to honor the original spirit and intent of the Treaties after attending a Treaty 4 flag raising at the Town of Lumsden’s entrance. Through counsel, relationship building, conversations with study hall guests, training and letter composing, Settlements Acknowledgment Week was shaped.
Minister of First Nations, Métis, and Northern Affairs Don McMorris stated, “We are all Treaty people, and we are all responsible for honoring Treaty rights and relationships.” I might want to share my appreciation for the devoted work of Justin Freitag’s Grade 5 Class at Ecole Lumsden Rudimentary for presenting the Arrangements Acknowledgment Week drive. Their commitment to promoting understanding and respect for the Treaty Relationship is demonstrated by their collaboration with the Office of the Treaty Commissioner to produce useful educational resources.”
Arrangements Acknowledgment Week praises the significance of Settlements and advances instructive open doors encompassing Deal privileges and connections. Finding out about the aggregate Deal expectations encourages more prominent comprehension and advances careful connections among Native and non-Native individuals. Treaties Recognition Week is also one of many steps toward reconciliation and healing.
“Arrangement training and data should be broadly accessible to the general population, and Deals Acknowledgment Week is a significant method for doing this,” Settlement Magistrate of Saskatchewan Mary Musqua-Culbertson said. ” This week, the Workplace of the Settlement Magistrate is taking individuals through the excursion from before the Arrangement to now, including perceiving the wrecked Deal guarantees, colonization, the drawn out effect of private schools, and the remainder of the genuine history of Canada. This week, we are going to acknowledge the harm caused by broken Treaties and the discrimination that Indigenous people are subjected to—things that we can no longer ignore. Working together for reconciliation and creating a better life for future generations is another focus of the week.
“Our goal was for Treaties Recognition Week to facilitate connections among all Saskatchewanans. “From border to border to border to border,” Justin Freitag, an educator at Ecole Lumsden Elementary School, stated. Settlements Acknowledgment Week would focus on Deal Training and backing mindfulness between networks as they explore the bits of insight of our common history. The soul and plan of Deals was to have individuals reestablish, construct and keep up with moral connections, and to gain from each other as we share this delightful land in the region that we call home.”
Saskatchewan was the first province in Canada to mandate Treaty education in all K-12 classrooms in 2008. Together with the Treaty Commissioner, the Treaty curriculum, which includes the Treaty resource kit, was developed and distributed to Saskatchewan schools.
In 2022, the Public authority of Saskatchewan, in association with the Workplace of the Deal Chief, worked in coordinated effort to make Saskatchewan the principal purview in Canada to put official street signage stamping arrangement limits along significant commonplace roadways. On Highway 11, the initial signs indicate the boundaries of Treaty 4 and Treaty 6. This year, additional signage for Saskatchewan’s Treaty boundaries along the National Highway System is also planned.
