Delta Days Agenda
April 5th - Day 1
Location: Wanuskewin Heritage Park, RR #4, Penner Road
If you have any questions or concerns during the event, please contact Kiri Staples
at (306)-202-9950
8:15AM
Bus 1 leaves from Park Town Hotel (924 Spadina Cres. East), Bus
2 leaves from Kirk Hall (117 Science Place) at the University of
Saskatchewan
8:45AM
Buses arrives at Wanuskewin Heritage Park
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Registration
Light breakfast (coffee, tea, muffins, pastries, and fruit) will be provided in the morning
9:00AM – 10:00AM
Opening ceremony and prayers
10:00AM – 11:00AM
Screening of Delta Ways Remembered and small group discussion
Lalita Bharadwaj, Lori Bradford and Nicole Paul will introduce the
film and invite reflections from elders on their deltas and the way
they are remembered.
11:00AM – 11:15AM
Morning break
11:15AM – 12:30PM
Discussion topic: Watershed planning
Presentations from:
 Gary Carriere and Graham Strickert – Cumberland House
Water Stewards Group
 Raymond Settee and Bob Patrick - Cumberland House Cree
Nation source water protection planning
 Jocelyn Marten and Alice Martin – Lessons learned from
the Peace-Athabasca Delta
 Tim Heron – Lessons learned and next steps for the Slave
River and Delta Partnership
Questions, breakout discussion groups
12:30PM – 1:30PM
Lunch (provided on site)
1:30PM – 3:15PM
Discussion topic: Community-based monitoring
Presentations from:
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Stanley Louine, Lalita Bharadwaj and Paul Jones – Lessons
from the Slave River and Delta
 Morgan Voyageur – CBM in the Peace-Athabasca Delta
 Les Carriere and Tim Jardine – mercury monitoring in the
Saskatchewan River Delta
Questions, breakout group discussion groups
Youth activity: Fish Scale Art Teaching and Art Activities in the
Sculpture Studio at the U of S campus
3:15pm – 3:30PM
Afternoon break (light snack provided)
3:30PM – 4:30PM
Breakout group activity: Word maps
What word or phrase describes the important aspects of your delta?
Youth activity: Traditional Games in the classroom at Wanuskewin
4:45PM
Bus leaves from Wanuskewin to hotel and University (for those
who don’t want to stay for evening event)
5:00PM – 7:00PM
Welcome feast and social
“My delta is….” photo booth will be available from 4:30-5:30PM
7:00PM
Buses leaves from Wanuskewin and returns to hotel and University
(for those who stayed for the evening event)
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April 6th - Day 2
Location: Wanuskewin Heritage Park, RR #4, Penner Road
8:15AM
Bus 1 leaves from Parktown Hotel, Bus 2 leaves from Kirk Hall at
the University of Saskatchewan
8:45AM
Buses arrives at Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Light breakfast (coffee, tea, muffins, pastries, and fruit) will be provided in the morning
9:00AM – 9:30AM
Welcome, synthesis and regrouping
9:30AM – 10:45AM
Breakout group activity: Mapping connections to place
What are the places that are most important to you in your delta?
10:30AM – 10:45
Morning break
10:45AM – 12:00PM
Discussion topic: Youth engagement
Presentations from:
 Evangeline Cardinal and Melanie Dene – youth
perspectives from the Peace-Athabasca Delta
 Kathleen Fordy and Lorne Doig – youth engagement and
invertebrate monitoring in the Slave River and Delta
 Lily McKay-Carriere, Ingrid Maccoll, and Evan Andrews –
culture camps and school curriculum in the Saskatchewan
River Delta
Questions, breakout group discussions
12:00PM – 1:30PM
Lunch (provided on site)
1:30PM – 3:30PM
Breakout group activity: identifying key messages and actions
Large and small breakout group discussions
Youth activity: tour of Aquatic Toxicology Research Facility,
mercury in fish tour and otolith dating, and University tour
3:30PM – 4:00PM
Synthesis and setting the stage for Day 3
4:00PM
Buses leaves Wanuskewin and returns to hotel and University
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Dinner on your own. A bus will be departing from the hotel at 5:00PM to take people to WalMart and Cabela’s, if they are interested. It will return people to the hotel at 7:30PM.
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April 7th - Day 3
Location: University of Saskatchewan
8:30AM
Bus departs hotel for Diefenbaker Centre at the University of
Saskatchewan, 101 Diefenbaker Pl.
8:45AM
Bus arrives at Diefenbaker Centre – workshop will take place in
the Prairie Room
Light breakfast (coffee, tea, muffins, pastries, and fruit) will be provided in the morning
9:00AM – 9:30AM
Welcome and overview for the day
9:30AM – 10:30AM
Group discussion: next steps for the traveling display
Youth activity: finger weaving teaching and art at the Gabriel
Dumont Institute
10:30AM – 11:00AM
Walk to Gordon Oakes Red Bear Centre (nearby on campus – bus
will also be available for those not comfortable with walking)
11:00AM – 12:00PM
Public lecture: panel on “Opportunities and Challenges for
Working with Traditional Knowledge and Science”
Speakers: Earl Evans and Karl Lindenschmidt, Jocelyn Marten
and Stuart MacMillan, Solomon Carrere and Tim Jardine
Moderator: MJ Barrett
12:00PM – 12:15PM
Transition ceremony
12:15PM – 1:15PM
Box lunch at Gordon Oakes Red Bear Centre
1:15PM
Bus departs Gordon Oakes Red Bear Centre and returns to hotel
Afternoon and evening free. Participants from the Saskatchewan River Delta depart.
6:30PM – 6:45PM
Shuttle to Broadway Theatre leaves from hotel for public event
(optional).
7:00PM – 8:30PM
Public event: screening of Saskatchewan River Delta documentary
Introduction by the film maker, Ian Toews, and a Q & A with
Norman Smith (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and residents
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from the Saskatchewan River Delta.
8:40PM
Shuttle departs Broadway Theatre and returns to hotel
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