Buffy Sainte-Marie to sign agreement with University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan invites media to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signing ceremony between President Ilene Busch-Vishniac and the founder of the Cradle Board Teaching Project, Buffy Sainte-Marie. The event will be emceed by Okisiykaw Tyrone Tootoosis.


Tuesday, March 11, 2014


6:30 pm


Broadway Theatre


715 Broadway Avenue


Saskatoon


The Saskatchewan Cradleboard Initiative (SCI) is a unique cross-cultural educational resource project to support Kindergarten through Grade 8 students in science, technology, engineering and math. Â New resources will be developed jointly by the U of S and Buffy Sainte-Marie's Nihewin Foundation Canada in partnership with Aboriginal educators and aim to support the provincial science curriculum's explicit mandate to co-present Indigenous and western perspectives on science at all levels of learning





For more information, contact:

Candace Wasacase-Lafferty

Director of Aboriginal Initiatives

University of Saskatchewan

306-978-8555

candace.lafferty@usask.ca
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