City of Toronto - National Indigenous Peoples Day, June 21, 2020

This year, the City of Toronto presents a virtual celebration for National Indigenous Peoples Day. This year’s program includes:

• Prayer from Elder Garry Sault of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation, including offering of medicines (smudging)
• Water ceremony and song, followed by a berry teaching, with Kim Wheatley, Anishinaabe Grandmother, Turtle Clan and Traditional Ancestral Knowledge Keeper from Shawanaga First Nation
• Welcome from Chief Stacey Laforme of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation
• Messages from Mayor John Tory and Councillor Mike Layton, member of the Aboriginal Affairs Advisory Committee
• Big Drum Honour Song performed by the Black Bull Moose Singers, a traditional Indigenous singing group of the Anishnawbe and Oneida First Nations