Last month, Cadmus Delorme, the much-acclaimed former chief of the Cowessess First Nation and a strong voice in the national conversation on reconciliation, visited four high schools in the Black Gold School Division.

Students at New Sarepta Community High School, Leduc Composite High School, Ohpaho Secondary School, and École Secondaire Beaumont Composite High School gathered to hear Delorme’s profound message about truth and reconciliation – delivered not as a lecture, but through personal stories that invited listeners to reflect on their place in a nation striving for greater equity and inclusion. He offered a way of seeing the world that invited students to be more thoughtful, to question what they know, and to consider what it means to belong to a nation striving for true equity, inclusion, and acceptance.