This week’s Indigenous Engagement Conference will be the largest since it began in 2014.

The speakers include Residential School Survivors and Knowledge Keepers and the theme is the Seven Sacred Teachings: love, respect, courage, honesty, wisdom, humility and truth.

One of the presenters is Chief Cadmus Delorme of the Cowessess First Nation, where a preliminary finding of 751 unmarked graves was announced in June at the former Marieval Indian Residential School.

Co-Chair of the organizing committee and Director of Reconciliation with the Saskatoon Public Library, Brad Bird, believes this conference provides many Indigenous and non-Indigenous people with a connection to traditional teachings, and he hopes it will be thought-provoking.

The seventh-annual, and virtual, Wîcihitowin Indigenous Engagement Conference in Saskatoon has grown from about 300 registrants in its first year to around 2,500 this year. It set for October 5th to 7th.