
Ahtahkakoop Cree Nation (SK) – Maskwacis First Nation and Wihneemne (Paul First Nation) (AB) – Lil’wat Nation, Tk’emlúps and TLKemchEEn (Lytton First Nation) (BC) – Yellowknife (NWT)
You wouldn’t believe what this team has made happen in their communities!! All in pursuit of connection, belonging and wellbeing for Indigenous youth.
They worked with Elders and community partners to support youth in their community to try new things, connect to their culture and community, feel proud of themselves and their culture, and learn cool things!!!
Beading, art and board game nights, language lessons, book clubs, movement classes, sharing circles
Harvesting trips, hikes, land defense, and land camps
Family movie nights, community markets, dinners and fashion shows
A performance of Bear Grease the musical, visit from author Clayton Thomas- Müller, support for community pow wows, music videos in Ahtahkakoop and Wihneemne
Canning, medicine teachings, meat smoking and tipi making
Regalia and ribbon skirt making, drums and rattles, working with porcupine quills, dentalium, parfleche and hide
VIDEA would like to acknowledge the ancestral, traditional and unceded Indigenous territories of the WS’ANEC’ (Saanich), Tsartlip and Tsawout (central Saanich), Lekwungen (Songhees), Wyomilth (Esquimalt) and T’Sou-ke (Sooke) Coast Salish Peoples, on whose territory we work, live and play.