By Alexandra Noad Lethbridge Herald Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Teachers from four reserves of the Blackfoot Confederacy gathered Monday and Tuesday for the annual Blackfoot Confederacy Education Conference. This conference helps educators, support staff and trustees throughout the Confederacy come together with the common goal moving forward with helping the children and youth of the Nations. Each year a different tribe hosts the conference and choosea a theme for the event. This year, it was the Piikani Nation located in aouthern Alberta’s turn and they chose the focus to be “developing critical thinking.” Lisa Crowshoe, superintendent for the Peigan Board of Education Society, says the theme stemmed from the state of emergency announced early this year due to the opioid crisis. “One of the main things with this is we…
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