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.
By Jennifer ThomaTuesday, 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