Heroes
Check out and lend your support to these wonderful people who are working to make a difference.
Tanya Talaga
Award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations and journalist for the Toronto Star.
Twitter @TanyaTalaga
Jody Wilson-Raybould
Independent MP for Vancouver Granville and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Pushing for an Indigenous rights recognition framework within Parliament.
Website: https://www.re-electjodywr.ca/
Cindy Blackstock
She has 25 years of social work experience in Indigenous children's rights, and has worked with other Indigenous leaders to assist the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in developing a General Comment on the Rights of Indigenous Children.
Twitter @cblackst
Alanis Obomsawin
Member of the Abenaki nation, and a documentary filmmaker who has made over 40 documentaries about Indigenous life in Canada.
Read more about her here.
Autumn Peltier
Chief Water Commissioner for the Anishinabek Nation, she advocates for clean water and is also known as a "water warrior".
Instagram @Autumn.Peltier
Chief Lady Bird
Co-founder of Our Stories Our Truths, an Art as Healing program that connects urban Indigenous youth to mentors in their communities.
Instagram @chiefladybird and @ourstoriesourtruths
Perry Bellegarde
Current National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, whose platform, Closing the Gap, focuses on producing measurable progress in the policies on Indigenous people of Federal and Provincial governments.
Twitter @perrybellegarde
Zacharias Kunuk
Inuit film producer, who has made various feature films which are about Indigenous people and are made with Indigenous casts and languages (e.g. Inuktitut) .
Read more about him here.