Program expands Indigenous education

SHEA Rotumah (back to camera) conducted a smoking ceremony using branches from a cherry ballart tree, a member of the sage family that symbolises reliance on each other (they grow off each other). Picture: KAREN HODGE 211124kh41

By Chalpat Sonti

November 27, 2021 | 7:00 AM

INDIGENOUS education embedded into the curriculum, not merely a separate part of it – that’s the goal of an expanded new initiative at Portland Secondary College’s Re-engagement Program.

The re-engagement program on Wednesday officially unveiled the expansion to the existing curriculum while also celebrating 10 years in existence.