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Ariana Roundpoint from Akwesasne Québec organized a Mukluk making
workshop where youth in her community were invited to learn more about
their Mohawk history and culture. Knowledge keeper and artist Jessica Hall
guided the youth on how to make the mukluks, with each youth getting
to create their own pair. They discussed the importance of youth stepping
forward to learn teachings in order to pass them onto future generations.
Levi Marshall from Membertou First Nation
worked with a group of students at his
high school to start the Footprint Project,
an initiative aimed at raising awareness
around the violence faced by Indigenous
women in Canada. They cut out over 450
footprints which students signed expressing
their commitment to taking action on this
important issue. Levi also took inspiration
from ribbon projects done in The Pas and
Winnipeg, cutting out strips of red cloth and
tying them all over the branches of trees in his
community to honor the Indigenous women
who have been lost through violence.
