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In this issue...
The Aboriginal Youth Media Team has been blessed to have incredible partners supporting our 'earn and learn' initiatives. In 2008/9, we provided training and support to promote media awareness, technology careers, and higher education in our community. 13 Youth directly benefitted from opportunities to develop a range of literacy skills needed for success in the 21st Century. We attended conferences, hosted workshops, researched and wrote lots of articles, made a DVD (see www.youtube.com/redway99). We had a blast connecting to you all.
This issue combines many of the articles written by Aboriginal Youth; please review our archives and check future issues for more incredible insights, stories and news items to learn about the diversity and talenst of Aboriginal people. Help us build relationships based in respect and recognition.
This issue is intended to thank everyone who provided resources for our AYM Team this year...we appreciate all the ideas and resources shared from you, our readers, and these community champions and newsletter partners:
Project hosts: Knowledgeable Aboriginal Youth Association - www.kayaweb.ca and Spiritlink Communications - www.spiritlinking.com
Project Lead Funders: Metro Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Strategy - www.mvuas.ca
Project partners: BC Association of Friendship Centres, Bruce Lacroix & Associates, First Nations Technology Council, SAY Magazine
RedWAY BC News partners: ACCESS - Aboriginal Community Career Employment Services Society, Stitsma Employment Centre, BC Hydro... we'll be creating a new partnership section to feature these partners, their logos, and their news.
Thank you all for your financial, in-kind, political, emotional, physical and knowledge and support for Aboriginal Youth 'earn and learn' projects. We'll be taking a break for the rest of the summer to attract more AYM Team 21st Century Literacy Skills partners, so RedWAY won't be back until the end of August. We look forward to developng an expanded version of the AYM Team project this fall!
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UAYC Hosted Interactive and Inspiring Weekend in Chase, BC
Unified Aboriginal Youth Collective's 'Unity In Action Youth Forum'
by Adele Alexander, AYM Team writer
Aboriginal Youth Media Team Reporting from the UAYC Unity in Action Youth Forum February 27 to March 1st at the beautiful Quaaout Resort Conference Centre on the shores of the Little Shuswap Lake. Thanks to the Since its inception, the UAYC team and Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation for hosting such an inspiring weekend!
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Success Profile: Roberta Cotes Interview
Success Story about a Young Aboriginal Women
by Adele Alexander, AYM Team
Meet this Aboriginal youth volunteer from the Broadway Youth Resource Centre in Vancouver, BC. Roberta tells her story of how she received support and is now able to contibute back to the organization and community that helped her...
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Meet Sashia Leung, Harper Campbell, Archibald, Danny Williamson and Tawnee Whitford
Diverse Profiles of Success from UAYC - Meet Community Members from AYM Team Interviews
by Elizabeth Alexander & Lacy Morin-Desjarlais
Want some inspiration? Want to learn about the diversity of Aboriginal people? Check out these quick interviews with local community leaders we met at the UAYC Forum in Chase, BC. They help in different ways, in various communities, and in different organizations, businesses, and government ministries to make lives better for Aboriginal Youth...and therefore, our whole community!
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Sweat Lodge at British Columbia Institute of Technology?
Exhibitor profile from the BCAAFC Gathering Our Voices 2009 Conference
by Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, Aboriginal Youth Media Team Writer
Who knew I'd find out about the Sweat Lodge at BCIT while I enjoyed strolling around the information booths at the Gathering Our Voices Conference? I met people from many different organizations, schools, and various artisans who'd come to promote their causes to 1,200 Aboriginal youth. Check out how BCIT helps Aboriginal students connect to culture...
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Challenge Your Leadership! Aboriginal Youth contest entry
Unified Aboriginal Youth Collective Forum Writing Contest
by Elizabeth Alexander
The UAYC is all about youth participation - so they had a topic for a writing contest called 'Challenge Your Leadership!' Read what I wrote about...what leadership means to me, what attending the forum meant to me, and what the community could use to help...
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Sharing results - accountability for our readers and partners
Summary for the Unified Aboriginal Youth Collective
by Elizabeth Alexander, AYM Team writer
This is a summary of what I learned, felt, did, and saw at the forum. And a huge thanks to Black Water, Nathan Parnell, David and Dallas, Katelyn Mathew, Maddy McCallum, Christie Lee Charles and Jerilynn Webster, story-teller Dallas, Harper, Mathias Linklater, Raven Ann Potschka, Jasmine Thomas, and Vernie Clement for their performances...
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Gathering Our Voices Conference 2009 RedWAY BC News E-zine Workshop
Media Careers and Digital Literacy - from the Yout's Up!
by Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, Aboriginal Youth Media Team Writer
Putting Youth to work as reporters, writers and photographers is an innovative and interactive way to engage them in conferences. Plus, it helps them see the benefits of getting their voices into the news, being accountable, and continuing their education...
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Grandmother & Granddaughter teach Mechif and Cree at BCAAFC Event
Meet the dynamic duo Stella Johnson and Alisha Erasmus
by Odessa Hall, Aboriginal Youth Media Team member
Stella Johnson and her granddaughter, Alisha Erasmus, are two wonderful women who taught our group of Aboriginal Youth from around BC at this year’s Gathering Our Voices Conference.
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A Day of Learning and Linking at ICT 2009: Information & Communication Technologies Summit
Connecting, Learning, Listening and Sharing Ideas
by Elizabeth Alexander, Spiritlink Communications
I learned a lot about technology and its uses at the ICT Summit, including responses from over 100 communities about their need for broadband Internet access. Phillip Djwa taught me about me (the Millenial Generation) and the ways we're changing the workforce, and I met a community champion! Check out this daily journal...
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A Photojournal from Gathering Our Voices 2009
Experience what Aboriginal Youth saw, did, learned in Kelowna, BC this year!
by Elizabeth Alexander, AYM Team writer
It's important to share what you learn - so please check out my pictures and experiences at the conference! Send us your photos and stories from events, too...
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Gathering Our Voices 2009 = Aboriginal Success Story
Interview with Wellness Coach and Facilitator Rachel Andrew-Nelson
by Elizabeth Alexander, AYM Team
I had an interview with Rachel because she seemed like a smart independent woman - and I found her focus on energy work and healing an interesting topic.
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Learning from First Nations Pre-conference Event at ICT Summit 2009
Theme of this year’s Summit: “Collaboration” Shines Strong
by Lacy Morin-Desjarlais, Aboriginal Youth Media Team Writer
The annual ICT Summit provides four days of learning, sharing and building new and stronger relationships that support our people’s health, employment and economic development through Internet and Communications Technology. In this year's Pre-Conference Event, I learned about ways that First Nations Communities can use GIS - Global Information Systems - to develop land use plans, support treaty...
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ICT Summit Stories: Supporting First Nations Languages Workshop by Marisa Phillips, Ktunaxa Nation and Neskie Manuel, Neskonlith Indian Band
Podcasting can preserve languages! And ways to type accents on letters
by Aboriginal Youth Media Team writers
Emerging technologies can help preserve and share cultures - and podcasts provide a fairly simple way for people to record then distribute anything from oral stories, news items, and language lessons.
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ARCHIVES (other great issues to check out)
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Issue 80 - Aboriginal Events for Spring Success, Win to Get In Contests for Don Burnstick Show and Tomson Highway Play, Free Workshops
April 30, 2009
Vol. 6
Issue 5
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Issue 79 - April Updates
April 11, 2009
Vol. 6
Issue 4
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Issue 78 - Special Issue Promoting Metro Vancouver Urban Aboriginal Strategy Events
March 13, 2009
Vol. 6
Issue 3
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Issue 77 - Meet us at ICT Summit, Aboriginal Employment Training Programs
February 11, 2009
Vol. 6
Issue 2
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Issue 76 - New Year, New Aboriginal Youth Media Team, New Focus on Digital and Media Literacy
January 30, 2009
Vol. 6
Issue 1
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