Anishinabeg elder Oscar Kistabish offers a kokum scarf and a beaded medallion to a graduating student from the Université Laval Land Guardians certificate program. Rector Sophie D’Amours (right) will offer him a graduation stole embroidered with the symbol of the Guardians and a certificate. Combining the symbols of knowledge from Indigenous and academic communities was important for the program’s administrators. (Photo by Myriam Labbé)