The University of Lethbridge’s annual Indigenous Awareness Week, March 17-21, embraces the spirit of reconciliation by offering a host of activities designed to facilitate conversations and understanding.

“What Indigenous Awareness Week does is bring people together and build relationships,” says Iikaisskini (Low Horn), Dr. Leroy Little Bear (BASc (BA) '72, DASc '04), vice-provost Iniskim Indigenous Relations. “The more we talk to each other, the better we know each other, the easier it is to work together. In my words, it's all about relationships. If we have good relationships, it's much easier to work together and to cooperate.”

The week begins with an Opening Ceremony at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 17, in the Science Commons Atrium, followed by a noon-hour feast with a mini-powwow and dance demonstration at 1 p.m., as well as a special B…