Longtime StarPhoenix columnist Doug Cuthand, photographed in his home, is receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan. Photo taken in Saskatoon, Sask. on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2024.Photo by Michelle Berg/Saskatoon StarPhoenix

Cuthand: Honorary U of S degree prompts reflection on family legacy

Saskatoon StarPhoenix and Regina Leader-Post Indigenous affairs columnist Doug Cuthand was bestowed a degree from the University of Saskatchewan.

by · Saskatoon StarPhoenix

This week I received an honorary doctorate from the University of Saskatchewan at the fall convocation.

I was deeply touched to receive this recognition, and it made me reflect on my family’s history and how I was the recipient of the hopes and dreams of past generations.

We are all products of our past and the pain, suffering, strength and beauty of our ancestors live within us and serve as the complicated fusion that creates us as individuals on one hand, but descendants on the other.

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