First Nation youth from different communities joined a panel of Indigenous students and Elder Henry Pitawanakwat to talk about community-based education.
First Nation youth from different communities joined a panel of Indigenous students to talk about community-based education.
The young people were invited to join Elder Henry Pitawanakwat, a Knowledge Keeper from Three Fires Confederacy and Anishinaabemowin translator who has done extensive work, teachings and storytellings with Indigenous youth in the Greater Toronto Area.
FNWSC Governance Director Leslee White-Eye facilitated the event, organized by the First Nations Education Administrators Association and the University of Ottawa
The panel included:
- Jay FastCloud-Smith, Rapper, Youth Justice Advocacy Coordinator, Chippewas of the Thames First Nation (tentative)
- Emily Peltier, Grade 11 student, winner of James Bartleman award for Indigenous Youth Writing, from Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory
- Lauren Poeta, Archaeologist and post graduate student at Western University, working as project associate in the Office of Indigenous Initiatives’ new Wampum Learning Lodge, Anishinaabekwe member of Wiikwemkoong Unceded Territory and was born on Curve Lake First Nation.
- Keiran Davis, two spirit trans youth who sits on the 2SLGBTQIA+ Council for Grand Council Treaty#3 and the Ontario First Nations Young Peoples Council. Kieran has worked in Emergency Management, structural/forest firefighting and currently works in Justice doing victim services in his community. Kieran is from Obishikokaang (Lac Seul) Treaty #3.