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Heroes post and other playlists of Indigenous artists.

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Dedicated to some heroes from the Aboriginal community

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Brett Mooswa (@brettstoise) Official | TikTok

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Brett Mooswa (@brettstoise) on TikTok | 17.8M Likes. 988.2K Followers. Indigenously Indigenous Business inquiries: brettmooswa91@gmail.com.Watch the latest video from Brett Mooswa (@brettstoise).

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James Jones (@notoriouscree) Official TikTok | Watch James Jones's Newest TikTok Videos

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James Jones (@notoriouscree) on TikTok | 92.5M Likes. 3.7M Fans. Bookings: notoriouscree@gmail.com

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He is a comedian and an amazing content creator.

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Che Jim (@che.jim) on TikTok | 129.1M Likes. 2.6M Followers. ⚡️Indigenous⚡️ Info@redhawktalentmgmt.com 🚨check out my official website!🚨👇🏽.Watch the latest video from Che Jim (@che.jim).

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Indigenous rapper from dene tha F.N in northern Alberta.

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Reclaiming her identity, dealing with mental health issues and healing from trauma.

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ᒫᓯᑫᐢᐠ ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (@kendrajessie) on Instagram

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auntie, athlete, advocate
Cree + Ukrainian, Sucker Creek First Nation
✉️: kendrajessie@gmail.com

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I can always count on getting a laugh when I see her videos. haha Great for mental health and escaping the outside world.

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🅽🅸🆂🅷 🅱🅸🆂🅷 (@sherry.mckay) Official | TikTok

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🅽🅸🆂🅷 🅱🅸🆂🅷 (@sherry.mckay) on TikTok | 28.8M Likes. 622.5K Followers. PO Box 39115,Inkster Park Wpg mb Can R2X 3B3.Watch the latest video from 🅽🅸🆂🅷 🅱🅸🆂🅷 (@sherry.mckay).

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This is a presentation that I created starring Jamie Billette. She built her business from scratch, she is well known for her beaded feathered earrings.

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He creates indigenous superheroes

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Indigenous Entrepreneur and Public Speaker

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Helping Leaders Prepare For The Future of Work Through Indigenous Values

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Kendal speaks professionally to thousands of people worldwide on resilience, leadership, and the power of telling your story. He is a leading entrepreneur, the founder of Neechie Gear®, the author of Driven To Succeed, and has received over 25 business awards.

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Kairyn Potts (@ohkairyn) Official TikTok | Watch Kairyn Potts’s Newest TikTok Videos

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Kairyn Potts (@ohkairyn) on TikTok | 4.1M Likes. 210.1K Fans. nakota sioux • twitch streamer • two spirit ✨ Follow me on IG ✨

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2S Indigenous Drag Queen Performer and Tiktoker 

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Wall of Honour Recipient Jessie Sylvestre – Community and Culture - College of Education

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On January 25, 2020, the College of Education honoured five outstanding alumni for their contributions and commitment to the field of education. Jessie Sylvestre (BEd’92, MEd’15) has been inducted into the Wall of Honour in the category of Community and Culture.

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Writes beautiful children's books in indigenous languages

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Made with love on the unceded Coast Salish Territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and sə̓lílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. © Richard Van Camp 2021. All Rights Reserved.

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Writes beautiful poetry & Music

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Admid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present. Featuring a foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and an afterword by Robin D.G. Kelley.

"This book must be read for its future vocabularies, its political intimacies, its careful assemblage of the materials of our activisms, and its generous and fulsome thinking."
-Dionne Brand, poet, novelist, and essayist

"Using the age-old practice of letter writing and the land itself as a palimpsest, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson find common ground to challenge the moral legitimacy of the settler nation state, and reinscribe new ways of what it means to be beings who are human in the forensic landscapes of Canada. In Rehearsals for Living, two women, one Indigenous, the other Black and African-descended confront their shared yet different experiences of colonialism, provide new and subversive meanings to the colonial trope of being landed, the mechanism by which the land was (un)settled. Unflinchingly, and in long-overdue and profoundly-needed "reasonings" that reverberate with shared breath, Simpson and Maynard weave their ideas, thoughts and reflections and their deep caring for community and society through the network of issues that impact us today-the pandemic and the differentials in treatment for Black and Indigenous people, the role of BLM, abolition, the necessity of Nibi and homespace for the Nishnaabeg, the joys of living on the land, and parenting in the face of ecological and racial disasters are but a few of the challenges they grapple with. Rehearsals for Living is fundamental to understanding the interlocking, founding crimes of the Americas; necessary for remembering the many erased histories of the on-going struggle for justice, and altogether indispensable to those wanting to create possible solutions."
-M. NourbeSe Philip, author of Zong!

"Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson embody and express how practice makes different. This necessary book is a model-through the shared process of two brilliant thinkers it gifts us clarity to see rehearsals otherwise and elsewhere."
-Ruth Wilson Gilmore, from the foreword

"We have been, and will continue to be, flooded with big books and little books and reports and documentary films all showing us how capitalism, racism, prisons, patriarchy, walls, and war are killing the planet. But this book is different. How Maynard and Simpson came to understand the world we must abolish and the world we need to build is through communing-with each other, comrades, friends and family, and the movements to which they make themselves accountable. They dance together, sing together, meditate, worship, and study together through letters, by sharing, by making themselves vulnerable to one another and to all of us reading these pages. Rehearsals for Living is a work of profound humility that honors the ancestors, the land, the children, and the struggles that enabled every generation to survive. They braid the histories and collective memories of Black and Indigenous struggles to establish a basis for solidarity, to find answers, and to reveal and share valuable lessons for our movements."
-Robin D. G. Kelley, from the afterword

"Across the pandemic-imposed distance, Leanne and Robyn begin a new iteration of the practices they've enacted in their labors and loves for years-this origin rises in letters, in which they take account of (and consequently bear the physical, emotional, and intellectual burdens of that accounting) the intimate and public violences committed by our governments upon our peoples, lands, waters and non-human relatives. In these letters, Leanne and Robyn constellate our brightest wounds and scars, but refuse to waste their energies of love and imagination on fixing or salvaging the Nation/State. Instead, they reorganize the trajectories and shapes of those constellations-retelling stories again and anew, of who we have been and might yet be again."
-Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem

"As we collectively and unevenly live through sedimented colonialities, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard draw out a political vision that emerges from epistolary connections-letters, animated by stories, that seek out, engage, imagine, and narrate different kinds and types of liberation. Accentuated by entangled black-indigenous histories and geographies, Rehearsals for Living actualizes friendship as correspondence, modeling a mode of togetherness that we can practice, learn from, and revise."
-Katherine McKittrick, author of Demonic Grounds and Dear Science and Other Stories

"The beautifully named Rehearsals for Living is a gift conjured by a pair of brilliant scholars during the dark days and months of the pandemic, lit by a powerful resistance movement, fueled and rendered magical by a profound and challenging dialogue that offers ways to collectively think and be and act in a chaotic world."
-Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

"In their inspired act of 'writing together, walking together, witnessing these times together,' Robyn Maynard and Leanne Simpson illuminate in essential ways the entwined lives of Black and Indigenous peoples. Rehearsals for Living honours legacies of courageous revolt against the ongoing histories of dispossession, incarceration, and violence. It is a book of relation, radical generosity, and care - a book, too, of running children, and the colour of the sky, and of 'holding within [ourselves] that nascent shimmering of possibility.' Above all, it is a book that poses and answers these most urgent questions: 'how are we going to live and how are we going to live together?'"
-David Chariandy, author of Brother

"Lyrical, visionary, and transcendent, Rehearsals for Living creates a literary maroon space deeply rooted in unique and overlapping histories and presents in which to dream abolition, home, love, land, liberatory forms of governance, life itself. While chronicling the continuing unfolding calamities of settler colonialism and racial capitalism with care and razor sharp clarity, Simpson and Maynard point readers to portals to different futures through the infinite possibilities of Black-Indigenous resistance. Give yourself the gift of allowing your heart and mind to overflow with the beauty and promise of Rehearsals' visions."
-Andrea J. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition

"Rehearsals for Living is a profound and sublime work of memory, witnessing, refusal, dreaming. In the trenchant tradition of Black and Indigenous feminisms, this brilliant book moves us away from the language of crisis or victimhood to the precise and intimate encounters of kinship and liberation. The letters between Maynard and Simpson magnificently shapeshift and engage on multiple levels, and in doing so, rigorously demand an accounting for horrific violences while illuminating lives and worlds anew. A masterclass in literary form, ethical orientations, and collective futures."
-Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule, Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

"What a pleasure and honor it is to read two such probing and principled minds in conversation and collaboration. Maynard and Simpson dare to confront the most wrenching challenges of our omnicidal times, while finding joy and love along the way. A beacon of a book."
-Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough

"Not all apocalypses are unwelcome. The profound anticipation for a world otherwise bubbled to the surface the summer of 2020. Collective rage and love shattered the sense of inviolability surrounding white supremacy putting forward an alternative vision, one already existing and always in the making. Rehearsals for Living is an epistolary that captures that urgent project of what it means to be human and imagine freedom in times of terrible danger. Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson tap into Black and Indigenous ways of knowing and world-making that require a fundamental disordering of the forces of destruction and the re-ordering of life and the beautiful struggle to get free."
-Nick Estes, author of Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

"Rehearsals for Living is an intellectually fierce dialogue about our colonial present by two of the most renowned scholar-activists working today. In a time of incredible uncertainty, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard show that the shared and divergent histories of Black and Indigenous communities are foundational to the building of a better world for all."
-Glen Coulthard, author of Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

"The end of the world, or the end of capitalism, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, white supremacy? This astonishing work of literature and theory enables us to imagine the end of them all, and to call into being, to rehearse, a world anew. If pandemics opened portals, Rehearsals for Living reveals the places of Indigenous and Black freedom to which they might lead. At a time when we need it most, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's letters generously invite us all to a future in which relations of liberation, not exploitation and oppression, constitute living on this planet together."
-John Munro, author of The Anticolonial Front: The African American Freedom Movement and Global Decolonization, 1945-1960

Solidification is a video collaboration blending an immersive reading by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from her recently released novel, "Noopiming:The Cure for White Ladies" (House of Anansi Press) over a wintery soundscape of drone and vocal composed by her sister Ansley Simpson, brought to life with visuals from Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像, an interdisciplinary collective of performance, art & technology. Check out the EP Noopiming Sessions, on Bandcamp.

Available in February 2021 in the United States from the University of Minnesota Press. Short Listed for the Governor' General's literary award for fiction.

"Noopiming is a novel that is as philosophically generative as it is stylistically original. It begins with someone who is frozen in a lake, waiting, and from whom we learn that: 'being frozen in the lake is another kind of life.' Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's expansive work explores the indivisibility of beings - old woman, old man, tree, caribou, stone, ice, spirit, geese, the brain and more, all watching, grieving, thinking, acting, and listening amidst the ongoing and quotidian urgencies of capital. They are sleepless, ceaseless, trying to alter and to recode the world of consumerism, and their survival means that they must daily and collectively reconstruct existence in the city and its coterminous forests. Noopiming is far ahead of us in so many registers of story, language, and worldview; its cumulative effect is a new cosmography."

- Dionne Brand, award-winning author of Theory

"Noopiming is a rare parcel of beauty and power, at once a creator and destroyer of forms. All of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's myriad literary gifts shine here - her scalpel-sharp humor, her eye for the smallest human details, the prodigious scope of her imaginative and poetic generosity. The result is a book at once fierce, uproarious, heartbreaking, and, throughout and above all else, rooted in love."

- Omar El Akkad, bestselling author of American War

"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's Noopiming once again confirms her position as a brilliant, daring experimentalist and a beautiful, radical portraitist of contemporary NDN life. The prose hums with a lovingness that moved me to tears, and with a humour that felt plucked right out of my rez adolescence. The chorus of thinkers, dreamers, revolutionaries, poets, and misfits that Simpson conjures here feels like a miracle. My heart ached and swelled for all of them. What I adored most about this book is that it has so little to do with the white gaze. Simpson writes for us, for NDNs, those made to make other kinds of beauty, to build other kinds of beautiful lives, where no one is looking. Noopiming is a book from the future! Simpson is our much-needed historian of the future!"

- Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of NDN Coping Mechanisms

In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver-or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance, as both a negation and an affirmation. A Short History of the Blockade reveals how the practice of telling stories is also a culture of listening, "a thinking through together," and ultimately, like the dam or the blockade, an affirmation of life.

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Admid the overlapping crises of a pandemic, ecological disaster, and global capitalism, two leading Black and Indigenous feminist theorists ask one another: what do liberated lands, minds, and bodies look like? These letters are part debate, part dialogue, and part lively and detailed familial correspondence between two razor-sharp thinkers, sending notes to each other during a stormy present.

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D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s bold Emmys statement highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women

D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai’s bold Emmys statement highlights missing and murdered Indigenous women (msn.com)

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Shina Novalinga | @shinanova

During TikTok’s height of popularity during the pandemic, Shina posted a video of herself and her mother throat singing on TikTok. The video went viral and since then, she’s continued to share her Inuit culture with her millions of followers including food and fashion.

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Outstanding Indigenous Woman: Lenise Omeasoo

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Lenise Omeasoo is an Indigenous beader based in Arlee.

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My Moshum Philip Favel was a D day survivor. He fought in the war, he is my hero and I am so thankful to known such a great man.

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Chelsey Luger is a member of the Standing Rock Souix Tribe and a wellness advocate, write and speaker. She promotes Indigenous health and wellness, focusing on cultural practices and community support. Chelsey is open about her sobriety journey, emphasizing healing and resilience, and advocates for holistic health approaches that empower individuals within Indigenous communities.

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Chelsey is from the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota. She double majored in History and Native American Studies at Dartmouth College, concentrating on…

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Carey Price is a goalie with the most wins in Canadiens history, having won 361 of the team record 712 regular season game. He had recently obtained an honourary Doctor of Laws degree from UNBC.

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She is also from the show Reservation Dogs, I loved her character. I did research about her during ece level 2. She inspires me to follow my dreams as an indigenous person. when i first heard of her i was instantly memorized that she wasn't afraid to express herself and be an actress.

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Known for: Reservation Dogs, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Beans

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Running Fox Beads is a Toronto based Artist. Her father is Dene from Patuanak in Northern Saskatchewan and her Mother is a Fourth Generation Canadian from Vancouver Island. "I am part of the Residential School legacy, growing up with a shuffled but not disconnected understanding of who I am. At the age of 15 I visited my reserve for the first time. Off a dirt-road, in an English River First Nation rez home, my auntie expected me to help cut the meat off a moose my uncle had hunted. Being from downtown Toronto, the expectation was a culture shock and I refused. Resisting my urban teenaged reaction, my auntie sat me down and taught me to bead. There, I completed my first piece of beadwork using one of my Setsuné’s designs. The act was instantly healing, and a bond formed. This narrative resonates with many young Indigenous people and beyond; when colonization has fractured cultural connections for many.

In 2015, I invested in my bead practice full-time when my first son was born. Since I identify as a mother first, practicing my art is an act of survival, sustenance, and connection in the same way it is to carve a moose and teach one's niece to bead their Setsuné’s designs. "

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he is not only an indigenous actor and an advocate for indigenous rights he is also a member of saulteaux nation

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Maria Linklater is so inspiring. She is a fearless advocate for children in foster care. She is a residential school survivor but says she's not a survivor but a warrior woman. She speaks of hope not just anguish. She will be speaking at Wanuskewin Sept 30 for Truth and Reconciliation Day. (If anyone can attend it's a beautiful and inspirational day)

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This story was originally published Sept. 30, 2022.
WARNING: This story contains distressing details.
Maria Linklater first started caring for children when she herself was still a child.

Decades later, after raising her own children and more than 350 foster kids, the Nehiyaw (Cree) woman continues to stand up for future generations.

The 80-year-old is known in Saskatoon and beyond as a fighter for children in care and for Indigenous families.

Linklater was born at Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan and was raised there by her grandmother.

She was one of eight sisters in the family. She said helping each other was a big part of their early childhoods.

"It takes a whole community to raise a child," said Linklater.

"Those were the days where it was so nice. You could just trust people. You left your doors open.... And if you need a babysitter, we'd babysit."

Linklater was forced to go to residential school when she was about seven years old, she said.

The young girl from Thunderchild hated the institution. She was not allowed to speak her language, nēhiyawēwin,but she did it anyway.

"I'd get a licking for it, but I'd still speak it," said Linklater.

As she had at home, Linklater started looking after the little ones.

"We'd get a licking all the time, and you were just [treated like] a worthless human being."

The fight for her sister's children

Eventually Linklater got out of the school and married.

But the pain from the time in the school didn't disappear, for Linklater or for other survivors.

"I was the wellest of the sickest and the best of the worst, because we just got out of boarding school and boarding school was a sick place, a toxic place," she said.

"We were all not well at all. We were just hurting."

Some tried to kill the pain with alcohol, she added. One of them was her sister, whose children were taken away.

The family couldn't afford a lawyer, and nobody came forward to provide legal advice or help, said Linklater.

When the children went up for adoption, she was heartbroken.

"I was just so angry," she said. "I tried and tried and tried. I sent letters.... I was just so hurt. I couldn't imagine how my sister felt."

After a long fight, Linklater was able to bring one of the children - the youngest girl - back to the family.

"She was special needs," said Linkater. "She was 11 months old when I got her, [a] tiny little baby."

The others were adopted in the United States, said Linklater.

This was the beginning of Linklater's lifelong dedication to children in care.

She knew there were other people hurting, with nobody to stand up for them, she said.

Linklater was ready to fight.

Taking care of foster kids

Linklater's niece was far from the only child she ended up taking into her home. In addition to their own and other family kids, Linklater and her late husband, Walter, would take care of more than 350 foster children, she said.

She mentions one of them, now a white-haired man with his own grandchildren, who still comes to visit her.

"I was only nine years older than him, and I was parenting him," Linklater remembered.

"I raised him for a whole year, and I didn't get paid or anything. I didn't want to get paid."

Parenting wasn't always easy. The intergenerational trauma of residential school and colonization left its mark, and not only on Linklater.

"Our parents didn't know how to parent us. We didn't know how to [be parents], and now it's hitting the other generations," said Linklater during a media event in 2020.

Culture and spirituality, especially ceremonies, have helped Linklater throughout her life, and she continues to pass them on to the next generations.

Teaching the next generations to fight for children

Linklater's journey to advocate for Indigenous children in care isn't over.

More than half of all kids in foster care Canada-wide last year were Indigenous, despite representing only 7.7 per cent of children 14 and under in the country, according to the latest census data. The number of Indigenous children in foster care remains almost unchanged since 2016.

"We get hurt every time a child gets taken away," said Linklater. "The child doesn't even have to belong to us. We see the mother cry."

Now Linklater teaches other women to be strong and to fight for children.

One of them is Shannon Kay.

The mother of seven is originally from Kawacatoose First Nation in Saskatchewan, but has been living in Saskatoon since she was 13 years old.

Kay started working with Linklater about four years ago when she had to fight for her adopted children, she said.

"It was very important [to have Linklater by my side]," said Kay. "She taught me how to advocate for myself and for other women and children."

Now Kay is following in Linklater's footsteps and providing support to mothers, helping to keep children at home with their families.

She wants to make sure parents know their rights, and seek advocates and legal advice before signing any papers, she said.

But Linklater is more than a mentor for the young woman. Kay calls Linklater her adopted mom, while her children see the 80-year-old as their grandmother.

"We started working with her to help my adopted daughter, and throughout the years she adopted me as her daughter," said Kay about Linklater.

The fight continues

The federal government says on its website that it wants to reduce the number of Indigenous children in care. New legislation is in place to help with the process and to improve child and family services.

The act came into force in 2020.

Linklater says there might now be a golden opportunity to bring Indigenous children home, but she still doesn't trust governments or their agencies.

"They lied to us so much," she said. "There's so much hurt and pain and no trust. And once you violate trust, you're gone forever, nobody's ever gonna trust you."

Linklater said more resources are needed to provide counselling for the children who have been stuck in the foster care system.

She is also advocating for strong leadership.

"We have to be honest, we have to be loving and caring and kind," she said.

"If you don't have kindness and honesty, and you don't love yourself, you're not going to make a good leader."

In Saskatoon, Linklater is well-known as a cultural leader, mentor and knowledge keeper.

During the 2022 Tony Cote Games in Saskatoon, for example, Linklater provided "teepee teachings" to the young athletes in the cultural village.

She and her late husband have served as elders with the Saskatoon Police Service since the 1990s, providing advice and knowledge, according to police.

Despite her years of service, Linklater knows that her work isn't done.

This week, she is looking forward to National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and Orange Shirt Day, which both take place on Friday.

"Every child matters," she said.

"The grandparents wear orange, the grandpas wear orange. Everybody wears orange, even the babies. And it brings healing to my mind, because I was in a residential school. I knew some kids that died and they weren't supposed to die."
Support is available for anyone affected by their experience at residential schools or by the latest reports.

A national Indian Residential School Crisis Line has been set up to provide support for survivors and those affected. People can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-hour national crisis line: 1-866-925-4419.

Mental health counselling and crisis support is also available 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the Hope for Wellness hotline at 1-855-242-3310 or by online chat at www.hopeforwellness.ca.

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Maria Linklater has spent a lifetime advocating for Indigenous children in care | CBC News

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Maria Linklater first started caring for children when she herself was still a child. Decades later, after raising her own children and more than 350 foster kids, the Nehiyaw woman continues to stand up for future generations.

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My little brother, who is Metis, Russ Sheppard, was a teacher in Kugluktuk, Nunavut and started a Lacrosse program to give the young people something to do in the community. The suicide rate was one of the highest in North America and he wanted something to give his students that would hopefully give them something to work towards and to feel a sense of pride. The movie, "The Grizzlies" was made about the program that was started and how it influenced the children of Kugluktuk and how they became influencers in their own community and so many now work helping their community.

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Beadwork designed by Lenise Omeasoo, a Blackfeet/ cree bead artist. She has 190.k followers on Tiktok and 50.2k on Instagram. Most notible work is a set she made for model Quannah Chasinghorse on the Met Gala carpet 2022, which feature her work done for Lily Gladstone at the Golden Globes in Vogue.

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Christopher Masuskapoe (@mr.christ0pher)

Christopher is a treasure to my community Ahtahkakoop. You can almost always guarantee you will have a good laugh, he has a great sense of native humor and highlights just how funny we can be. He really is something and has a great personality. Makes me proud.

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Be ready for anything.. #fyp #foryoupage #comedy #nativetiktok #nativehumor #nativewomen #mom #rez 

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Be ready for anything.. #fyp #foryoupage #comedy #nativetiktok #nativehumor #nativewomen #mom #rez
♬ original sound - Mr Christopher

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when I was in grade school my Cree teacher played this movie for us and it was life changing for me, it showed me the importance of keeping our language, culture, and stories alive. What really hit close to home was seeing the bond and love that the Grandfather and grandson had. My own grandfather was the one who taught me what it means to be a man and a proud indigenous person. So Dreamkeeper who holds a special place in my heart.

Garrett Robert Lewis Arcand-Tawpisim

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Water Activist

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Early Life and Education

Autumn Peltier was born and raised on the shores of Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes, the world's largest freshwater supply. She has attended school in Ottawa, where she lives with her mother and two sisters, Naomi and Ciara.

At the age of eight, Peltier attended a ceremony at Serpent River First Nation in Ontario with her mother, Stephanie, that, in part, inspired her future work as a water protector. At Serpent River, Peltier saw signs that warned of "toxic" drinking water. Contaminated water on reserves in Canada - caused by a variety of factors including pollution and pipeline leaks - has been an ongoing problem. During a 2019 Women of Influence interview, Autumn recalled the experience and how it affected her: "My mom explained to me that the community had been on a boiled-water advisory for over 10 years. I was shocked." ( See also Social Conditions of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.)

Peltier learned about the importance of clean water and respecting the environment from her mother and great-aunt Josephine Mandamin. Mandamin was known as the "water walker" because of her years working as the Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner until her death in 2019. Peltier discussed how she has been inspired to take on the responsibility of clean-water advocacy in an interview that year with the magazine, ETFO Voice:

My aunt and mom have been teaching me about the importance of clean drinking water and how to protect the environment since I was a little girl.... I advocate for water because we all came from water and water is literally the only reason we are here today and living on this earth.

Activism

Autumn Peltier has fought for the right of people to drink clean water, whether on reserves in Canada or in the developing world. In 2016, at the annual winter meeting of the Assembly of First Nations, then-12-year-old Autumn displayed great courage in criticizing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 's clean-water policies in a face-to-face meeting: "I am very unhappy with the choices you've made." Trudeau replied, "I understand that. I will protect the water."

The public "scolding" of the prime minister by such a young activist gained Peltier international media attention. Autumn shared her urgent message about water at the United Nations (UN) in New York. She spoke before the UN General Assembly for the launch of the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development in 2018, and then again before the UN Global Landscapes Forum in 2019.

Since 2015, the Canadian government has lifted 88 long-term drinking advisories, as they work toward cleaning contaminated water on reserves. However, as of February 2020, 61 long-term drinking water advisories remained in effect. The federal government acknowledged in December 2020 that its goal to get rid of the problem by March 2021 will not be met, though efforts to eradicate boil-water advisories continue.

It's The Secret Life of Canada's first shout out to a living youth leader! Meet Anishnabe-kwe Autumn Peltier. Greatly influenced by her great aunt Josephine Mandamin, Autumn has been using her voice to advocate for water rights since she was 8 years old. Today, The Secret Life of Canada learns a little more about this phenomenal water warrior and International Children's Peace Prize nominee.
Note: The Secret Life of Canada is hosted and written by Falen Johnson and Leah Simone Bowen and is a CBC original podcast independent of The Canadian Encyclopedia.

Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner

With the passing of her great-aunt Josephine Mandamin in February 2019, Autumn Peltier was appointed Chief Water Commissioner, the new "water walker" of her people. Anishinabek Nation Grand Council Chief Glen Hare admitted that it was an easy choice: "Autumn has extensive nibi giikendaaswin (water knowledge). She has been bringing global attention to the water issues in our country for a few years now."

Recognition

Autumn Peltier has made positive contributions as a water-rights protector. Maclean's magazine recognized the young activist in December 2019, naming Peltier one of Canada's "20 people to watch in 2020." Peltier's name topped the list of notables, including politicians Catherine McKenna and Chrystia Freeland. The Maclean's article noted, "As youth-led climate strikes continue globally, Peltier's voice will undoubtedly be one of the most crucial."

Peltier's environmental efforts have been recognized globally as well. She was nominated for the prestigious International Children's Peace Prize in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The award, sponsored by the international organization KidsRights, is given annually to "a child who fights courageously for children's rights." Peltier was also named a "Science Defender" by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 2019.

In 2021, Peltier was awarded the 2021 RevolutionHer Community Vision Youth Award for her work as the Anishinabek Nation Chief Water Commissioner. The award recognizes youth between 13-18 years old, operating as volunteers, philanthropists, or entrepreneurs. The candidates are active community members that are passionate about leading initiatives to better future generations.

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