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| Dwayne Noname is happy he found out more about his great-grandparents and wants to share with family what he has learned. (Louise BigEagle/CBC) |
Dwayne Noname always wanted to know where exactly he came from and a workshop in Piapot First Nation in Saskatchewan is helping him find out.
Noname's community, roughly 90 kilometres north of Regina, hosted a genealogy and kinship workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. Piapot members were taught how to trace their family trees and how to gather and organize family photos, documents and oral stories, something Noname said he was happy to see people participating in.
"It's quite interesting to see where everybody comes from, my parents, grandparents," said Noname.
Noname said now that he has a paper trail of his ancestors, he hopes to pass the knowledge down to his relatives' children who want to know more about their family and where their last name came from.
Through learning more about his great-grandparents, Noname also learned that he is Saulteaux.
"I thought I was Cree," he said.
"I feel confident and feel really great about myself who I really am as a person."
Chief Mark Fox said In a written statement that the workshop was held to help reconnect members to their roots, family names and stories. Fox said the workshop will also help Sixties Scoop and residential school survivors recover their loss of identity.
"Knowing your history is knowing your story," Fox's statement said.
READ MORE: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/piapot-family-genealogy-workshop-1.7603484
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