If you are familiar with Gzowski College, Enweying, you know that the bold colours yellow, red, black and white play an important role in the construction and design of the building. These colours were at the forefront of the vision statement guiding the design of Gzowski College and the First People’s House of Learning; yellow, red, black and white are the colours of the medicine wheel. Yellow, the colour of the east, which represents the rising, sun, the dawn of a new beginnings and hope, covers the outside of the buildings and the floors of the residence rooms. The weathered steel cladding the Gathering Space is gradually turning red, the colour of the south, representing youth, energy and celebration. The black that trims the entire building represents the south, growth and maturity. White, the colour of the north representing spirit and wisdom, is seen in the building’s bright metal features.These colours, as well as the shape of many of the rooms and buildings, distributed throughout the college are a reflection of the distribution of aboriginal peoples throughout the country and remind us that aboriginality is everywhere.

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