Miyo-wiciwitowin (Walking Together) Day Quiz

What were the first two instruments settlers introduced to the First Peoples?

• The drum and the fiddle.

How many hoops was Terrance Littletent dancing with?

• Seventeen.

Why was the number 65 on Howie Thompson’s jersey?

• He was taken to the Lebrett Residential School in 1965 at five years old. It is his healing number.

According to Chief Cadmus Delorme, what does Saskatchewan in Cree translate to?

• Fast-flowing river.

Who is Mary Simon?

• Inuk Governor General of Canada.

How many tipis were in the stadium?

• Four.

What greeting did Russ Mirasty use?

• Tanisi, which means “How are you?”; “Namoya-danta”

“…move from being survivors to (--------).” ~ Chief Roseanne Archibald

• Thrivers.

Who said a hundred percent of First Nations suffer from intergenerational trauma?

• Pamela Toulouse.

Who started Orange Shirt Day?

• Phyllis Webstad.

According to Ted Quewezance, how many stadiums could you fill with residential school survivors?

• Ten.

How did Ted define a survivor?

• One who continues in spite of setbacks or society.

What word did Erica Beaudin say translates to reconciliation in Cree?

• wâhkôwîcihiwêwin, which means “to set things right”.

What were the titles of Max Delorme’s songs?

• Hush Little Baby and The Survivor Song.

What were the titles of Zoey Roy, the Medicine Song Woman, and the RSO’s poems?

• Enough is Enough, Responsibility, and No Pride in Genocide

Who sponsored the event?

• Mosaic Company (Eagle Sponsor).

Since when has treaty education been mandatory?

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What do the signs on the highway indicate according to Minister Don McMorris?

• Treaty boundaries.

Who is Glen McCallum?

• President of the Métis Nation of Saskatchewan.

In Skylar Anderson’s, the Globe Theatre Indigenous Liaison, story about Quillwork Girl and the war with a thousand buffalo, what happened to her seven brothers?

• They jumped from the massive tree that had grown because of the three arrows into the clouds and became stars: the Big Dipper.

When Chief Edmund Bellegarde’s grandpa returned at age fourteen after eleven years of residential school, what was he like?

• A catholic farmer.

What four questions did the chair of the TRC Commission say society is meant to teach you?

1. Where did I come from?
2. Where am I going?
3. Why am I here?
4. Who am I?

“Reconciliation is about making the (-----) bigger. It’s about (-------------).” ~Chief Edmund Bellegarde

• Circle; understanding.

Who were the last people in Darian Agecoutay’s, a Cree Language Professor, family to speak Cree?

• His great-grandparents.

Who is Lori Campbell?

• Child of the 60s Scoop; two-spirited; separated from family and six siblings for 25 years.

Addiction and poverty among Indigenous Peoples are the symptoms of what?

• Genocide and systematic colonization.

How many genders are there in the Cree language?

• Eight.

What does Indigenous identity mean according to Thomas Benjoe?

1. Being invited to a dance (diversity).
2. Indigenous Equity (in the dance).
3. Indigenous Inclusion (let them lead).
4. Indigenous Belonging (own the dance together).

What did Mayor Sandra Masters unveil at the end of the ceremony?

• The Orange Seat, to remain unseated.

In what formation did the Royal Air Forces fly?

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Sandy Pinay Schindler announce the two student contest winners who were…

Muriel (artwork) and Jilianne (poem’ Greenall HS); legacy project about what September 30 means to you

What were the bus animals, drivers, seating, song sung on the way there?

• Jared the Racoon, Jim the Mouse, Wheels on the Bus, Section 4 Row 22

Who started the mosh?

• DJ Kokum and the Snotty Nose Rez Kids