Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig officially opens with ribbon cutting, speeches, activities
Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig - a new Indigenous post-secondary institution - officially opened on Friday at its Queen Street East location across from Algoma University, the site of the former Shingwauk Indian Residential School.
“Through the tribulation of the last 200 years we’ve been able to navigate through this system and have this beautiful place where an Indigenous view can be shared with not only our people but people from around the world in regards to post-secondary education through an Indigenous lens.” “Our children were placed in situations where they were forced to learn another way of living that wasn’t how we were raised and taught and how we lived our lives. We were forced to come to schools like the one across the street to learn Western ways, so the fact that there’s an Indigenous institute right here in Sault Ste. Marie where we can place a foundation on what was taken away is something that’s really important to give back to the Indigenous learner.