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I hope that language becomes more
of a priority… Language is fighting
colonization. It is what they took away
from us and we owe it to the residential
school survivors to hang on and bring it
back… I speak our language regularly
to my daughter and to hear her use
the language, to say the words of our
people makes me so proud. It's so
normalized for her and that's beautiful.
— Devin Pielle
Sliammon First Nation
The way we are taught in
schools is that humans are on
top of the living pyramid. There
are people, there are animals
and at the bottom are resources.
We need to change our
understanding of this and flip
the pyramid because truly if it
were not for the earth and all of
the resources, none of the rest of
living things including humans
would exist.
— Feather Pewapisconias
Littlepine First Nation
It's vital for us Indigenous youth
to have a voice in shaping our
country, because we are the
next generation of Canada's
original people. We have to be
the ones to carry out the stories,
legacies and traditions, so
that our cultures can strive
and grow.
— Levi Marshall
Membertou First Nation
