Dignitaries awaiting the graduate procession during a graduation ceremony honouring Indian Teacher Education Program and Indian Social Work Education Program graduates held in the Bowl. From l to r: Pius Dustyhorn, elder, Poor Man First Nation; Jim Cannepotatoe, elder, Onion Lake; Ernest Stanley, field worker, Indian Cultural Centre of the Saskatchewan Federation of Indian Nations (FSIN), Frog Lake, Alberta; Dan Pelletier, elder, Kamsack; Lawrence Myo, elder, Moosomin First Nation; Ed Okanee, elder, Loon Lake; David Ahenakew, chief, FSIN; Lloyd Barber, president, University of Regina; and J.B. Kirkpatrick, dean, Education. All locations in Saskatchewan except where noted.

Bio/Historical Note: The Indian Cultural College arranged a special graduation ceremony for students graduating from the Indian Teacher Education and the Indian Social Work Education programs. A tipi was erected in the enclosed garden between Marquis Hall and Qu’Appelle Hall in which Indian elders smoked a pipe and burned sweetgrass in a private ceremony on behalf of the students going out into the world.