Series - The Power of Indigenous Youth Voices

At the rate it’s going, Canada won’t complete the TRC Calls to Action until 2074. Here’s what would change with Indigenous youth policy leaders in charge.

Author Nickie Shobeiry
“The system is built from a foreign country’s ideologies of oppression and capitalism — it is not made to accommodate an Indigenous way of thinking.”

Why It Matters

In 2020, Canada only completed eight of the 94 Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action — one less than 2019. Indigenous knowledge and ways of being inherently respect other people and the planet — and if Indigenous youth policy leaders had an equal voice at decision-making tables, they could radically impact issues from the environment to racial equity, wealth distribution, and more.

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