Responding to the Provincial School’s implementation of a First Nations unit in all Social Studies classrooms, the Sto:lo Nation has developed an experiential program for both elementary and high school students. The students are exposed to different stations set up at the Coqualeetza Longhouse such as bannock making, carving, leaving, drum making, cedar bark, the Halqu’emeylem language, Slahal gambling game, ceremonial dancing, cedar root basket making, and beading. The Longhouse program was created in order to provide teachers and students with local access to experiencing Sto:lo ways of life and ways of knowing first hand. The Sto:lo traditions and philosophies or life and introduced and are designed, within this program, to supplement the in-class curriculum. This experiential presentation can be geared toward any grade level and is a wonderful way to allow students to experience local First Nations history first hand.
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