2019 YOUTH PROJECTS

Project Name

Revitalizing Our Sustenance

Project Description

Revitalizing Our Sustenance Project (ROSP) is a youth-led and focused program to help educate, sustain, reclaim, and revitalize Haudenosaunee (Hodinosoh:ni:) food sustainability and practices in the community of Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. The project will also provide Urban Indigenous youth and non-Indigenous youth the opportunity to help maintain the community garden and learn about Indigenous, Onkwehonwe, issues and identity regarding food sustainability. Involving non-Indigenous youth into ROSP will help Onkwehonwe youth make connections, new relationships, and understandings outside the Six Nations community. The idea of the project is building connections and understandings through food practice to help address the barriers between non-Indigenous and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. By implementing inclusive spaces to learn together evolves healthier relationships and ways of thinking for both Onkwehonwe and non-Indigenous participants.

Location

Six Nations
Bead and Breathe
Bead and Breathe is a series of workshops where youth will connect with one another on a virtual platform. We will be learning to bead lanyards while gaining cultural teachings and mindfulness techniques. The goal of this is to connect, heal and gain positive coping skills during these uncertain times. ​
Thunder Bay 
Indigenous Young Women and Femmes Project (IYWFP)
Support for young Indigenous women in Algonquin Territory or Ottawa by holding a virtual space for monthly women and femme sharing circles to check-in and stay connected to cultural teachings, during covid-19. The young women are encouraged to be creative and it is optional but materials will be provided to create bags for themselves. These bags may also be donated back to be given away to other young Indigenous women in the community that need feminine hygiene products or gift cards.
Ottawa
The Indigenous Support Project
An Indigenous youth led organization dedicated to connecting all Indigenous people across the world and integrating Indigenous traditional knowledge in all aspects of our organization. ​
Toronto
Grassroots Vision Making
This project is about grassroots groups and the work that they do. Through storytelling they share how they challenge Eurocentric colonial attitudes and healthy communities and healing. ​
Wikwemikong
Mashkiki gitigaanan
Mashkiki gitigaanan (medicine gardens) is a project supporting urban Indigenous people to grow and access medicines.
Toronto
Weehlalohkehtiit
Our project is aimed toward Lunaapeew youth in Eelunaapeewi Lahkehwiit. The collective goal is educate, inspire, and empower the next generation of lunaapeew leaders to create the future we want and deserve.
London
Pinaweego “Back in Time”
Pinaweego (Back in time) is a youth led project by two Anishinaabe Kwe's from Mahingan Sagahigan (Wolf Lake) First Nation. Over the course of the spring and summer months we will be clearing pathways that were travelled by our ancestors as a means of reconnecting with the land and our spirit, or sit with us and local Elders as they share stories of their childhood with us. We will also be documenting this work through video and podcasting to share the knowledge gathered with the community.
Wolf Lake First Nation
5th Annual A7G Round Dance ​
The round dance is a cultural gathering and memorial ceremony that is intended for us to gather and continue those friendships we have created throughout the years. We will have singers, vendors, elders, knowledge keepers, youth all be apart of this. We will hold this in the winter (February 2022) to create a space for community to gather ceremony and honour our loved ones. It's a time to remembrance and healing. It brings the community together to share songs, dance, foods and laughter. This round dance in particular has had a huge impact on the community in Ottawa. It has brought us all together in a really healing way. ​
Ottawa
Youth4Nature of Ontario
Bringing the regional perspective of Indigenous Peoples in Ontario to the international space of Youth4Nature, youth, elders and knowledge keepers will be compensated for the knowledge while bringing awareness to themselves, their communities and our peoples experiences with topics such as climate change, conservation, sustainability, environmentalism and more. Through a series of four webinars, four sharing circles and monthly TikTok takeovers youth worldwide will get a glimpse into the experiences of Indigenous Peoples in Ontario.
Ottawa

IBLV Dreamers Unconference

A community festival and unconference to build our capacity centering Black and Indigenous young leaders collaborating with YLC on the Spirit Spaces model. We aim to bring in over 100 participants to learn from around 35 grassroots movement leaders, change-makers, and community artists from across Ontario (Baawaating, Ottawa, Thunder Bay, Tkaoronto), over three-weeks of workshops, community circles, and artist showcases.
Sault Ste Marie