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Beginning in 2019, All students at Douglas Road had lessons with our Indigenous Education Resource Teacher about Coast Salish peoples. Students began learning about design elements of Coast Salish art and ways that art incorporates a world view of the interconnectedness of all things.
Since that beginning, we’ve practised using ovals, crescents & trigons. We’ve read The Salmon Forest and learned how salmon nourish animals like eagles & bears and then also become part of the soil and also the trees, which then create the shaded and sheltered parts of the stream that help new generations of juvenile salmon survive. We’ve cut bear, eagle & salmon shapes from wood and decorated them using the Coast Salish design elements we’ve practised. After drilling holes in our art pieces, students have now fixed them to our fence showing these animals from the land, the sea and the sky come together much the way they do along the rivers and streams nearby.
