The Rock Your Roots Walk which would normally be on Indigenous Peoples Day on June 21st, but was cancelled this year because of the weather, is now being held on Friday, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It begins at 10 at Central Urban Metis Federation Inc and ends in Victoria Park, across the road from Spadina Crescent West.

Residential School Survivor and member of the Rock Your Roots Walk committee, Judy Pelly, says, “The significance of a walk can be attributed to the Sunday walks in residential schools; this was often the only time when siblings and cousins of different genders might be reunited.”

The event is put on by Reconciliation Saskatoon, which the City of Saskatoon co-chairs along with the Office of the Treaty Commissioner. Attendance at the walk in past years has been in the thousands. Everyone is invited. CUMFI’s President, Shirley Isbister, considers the walk an opportunity to learn about and honour First Nation and Metis residential school survivors.