Angus McKay School has filed a police report after its teepee was stolen from the school grounds the morning after it was erected, reports CTV News. The teepee was set up on the elementary school’s grounds by a knowledge keeper for National Indigenous History Month. It was intended to serve as a visual reminder of the school’s commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous communities and was going to be used for land-based learning opportunities. “I’m still quite dumbfounded, because it would have taken a lot of effort to get that teepee down,” said Angus McKay Principal Jean-Paul Rochon, adding that the four-meter-wide teepee was constructed with heavy wooden poles. Parents were also upset to hear about the theft; parent Chelsea Dyck said that she expected that the teepee would have been a pleasant surprise for her children when they arrived at the school. The school has another teepee set up in the school library, which will be used for some of the original planned activities.
