Residential School Memorial

Students Healing From Our Past and Building Our Future

The Indigenous Students’ Union (ISU) and the University of Alberta Students’ Union (UASU) are inviting you to be a part of a ceremony of the Residential School Memorial that we will be hosting next Monday, September 26th. The memorial will remain near the Sweetgrass Bear in Main Quad at the University of Alberta until October 3rd.

There will be a total of 10,028 flags placed in the grounds near the Sweetgrass Bear. With each flag, the ISU and the UASU intend to commemorate a child lost to Residential Schools and commit to safeguarding each other’s healing. Each orange flag represents the additional number of graves found since last year’s memorial, 139 flags bear the name of the Residential Schools that operated on lands currently known as Canada, while yellow, white, blue and red flags represent the colors of the medicine wheel and the facets of healing ourselves and our relations.

Schedule

• 12 p.m. — Participants arrive
• 12:30 p.m. — Start of Ceremony
• 1:30 p.m. — Formal program ends and handing out of the flags commence
• 1:45 p.m. — Planting of the flags commence
• 3 p.m. — Event officially concludes

Order of Guests

• Elder Francis Whiskeyjack
• Danni Okemaw, Keeysha Knight, Drummers
• Victoria Delorme
• Cindy Gaudet
• Provost Verna Yiu
• Chantel Akinneah
• Drummers