Walter Bonaise with NAIT Filming Crew

First Nation Cree Elder, Walter Bonaise, visited
the museum today with a film crew from NAIT
in Edmonton. They are filming Walter telling stories from the past. The Bonaise Family archival materials and museum artifacts will help to illustrate some of the stories. These videos will aid the NAIT instructors to relate to the growing numbers of aboriginal students at their campus.

As well Walter told the story of the tomahawk in the First Nations culture and the significance it has as a symbol in the World's Largest Tomahawk in Tomahawk Park.

CKHS Work Experience Help

This week Marcy, with the help of high school work experience students, prepared for and cleaned up after the Museum's Garage Sale. As well, they cleaned up around the park, prepared a picnic table site, helped secure artifacts in an exhibit, mowed the grass, and moved archival materials.
This morning another group came and cleaned up trash in the park, moved gravel to the picnic table site, and stacked lumber.
Thanks everyone for their hard work! These high school students were a great help to us. Thanks as well to the teachers for supervising.
Every age group contributes to our park and museum so all can benefit.

Spring Work

Marcy is working with High School work experience students cleaning, painting and doing odd jobs at the museum.
As well she and Noreen are preparing for the annual Garage Sale on Saturday.
Don't forget to come and find some bargains as well as support the museum.

Art and History Collaboration with High School

Walter, Orval and Lucille spent Tuesday afternoon at the CKHS presenting stories about selected artifacts to grades 7 to 12. The students took notes about the stories that they heard and will write about what they learned. These stories will be presented to the museum to enhance our displays.

Today local artists will spend the afternoon making a presentation to the students. On Friday, students will go to the Poundmaker Interpretive Center to see the area where the 1885 Battle (or Resistance) of Cut Knife Creek took place.


This interchange of ideas is the beginning of a great partnership between the high school and the museum, local artists and historians.

Quilting Divas Give Back

The Cut Knife Quilting Divas are spending Tuesday, April 28, volunteering their time and sewing skills for the museum.

• The flags that we put on the highway signs need a small modification so they can be attached to the signs.
  
• There is a need for more padded hangers to hang the garments that we have at the museum. Each year we are lucky to have volunteers help us make more of these.
  
• As well, the Divas will be constructing garment bags to enclose the bridal dresses that we have in our collection. This will give the garments added protection from light and insect damage.
  

Thanks Lynn, Bonnie, Betty and Lorna!