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ABORIGINAL ALBERTA 77The Edmonton Sunn Thursday, June 21, 2012

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On National Aboriginal Day we celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures, and the significant

contributions of Canadas First Nations, Metis and Inuit.

For decades ATCO has worked in partnership with Canadas Aboriginal Peoples. Our Consultation practices, joint venture agreements, partnerships, communityinvestments and training programs demonstrate our ongoing commitment to Aboriginal Peoples.

Celebrating Canadas First Peoples

Hands-on historyhrough programming,

exhibitions, collections andcommunity outreach projects,Glenbow Museum strivesto encourage connectionsbetween First Peoples andtheir ancestry, heritage andculture. Glenbows rich col-lections ranging from Inuit,Plains, West Coast, Metis andother First Peoples from acrossNorth America encourage spe-cial interaction and educationopportunities for many FirstNations communities acrossCanada.

First Nations history is acritical component of the cur-riculum in Alberta. Hands-oninteraction with artifacts anda broad range of related schoolprograms bring close to 50,000students to the museum everyschool year.

Communities outside of theimmediate Calgary area alsobenefit from Glenbows edu-cational programming. hedistance learning programlaunched in 2009 and connects

remote and rural communi-ties to the museum through

video conf erenc ing sof tware

and allows museum educatorsand classrooms to interact andlearn more about First Nationscultures and history in a mod-ern way.

Gle nbow also w orks topresent contemporary per-spectives on First Peoplescommunities through relevant

visual art exhibitions, educa-tional programming and spe-cial events.

Glenbows art collection fea-tures many examples of impor-tant work by First Nations ar t-ists like Norval Morrisseau,

Alex Janvier, Joa ne Cardinal -Schubert and Gerald ail-feathers. Several contem-porary First Nations artists

works have been presented atthe museum in recent yearsincluding Kent Monkman andMichael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.

In 2010 Glenbow partici-pated in a homecoming forfive Blackfoot Shirts in col-laboration with Pitt RiversMuseum at Oxford University,

which b rought bac k to West-ern Canada these sacred hide

shirts that were acquired over

150 years ago by the HudsonsBay Company. In addition to apublic exhibition, several pri-

vate workshops were held thatenabled many Blackfoot com-munities to engage with theseimportant sacred artifacts.

Initiatives like these cre-ate a bridge to link past eventsand stories with contemporarylives to help create communitymemory for the First Peoples,said Kirstin Evenden, presidentand CEO of Glenbow Museum.Tese shirts embody ancientstories and histories of theBlackfoot people, and are con-sidered important curriculumas they help teach the Black-foot people about their placeand roles within the world.

Glenbow Musuem greatlyvalues t he role i t plays in thecommunity to educate visitorsabout the importance of FirstNations art and culture and is

very proud of the partnershipsand relationships it holds withthe First Nations communi-

ties. Sulied

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Glenbow Museum is actively working to create bridges linking past events and stories withcontemporary lives to help create community memory for First Peoples.

Calgary museum instrumental in heritage renewal