Raymond Kawapit Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:58:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg Raymond Kawapit Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 First Nations Teens Walk 1,500 Km To Raise Awareness https://teachingkidsnews.com/2013/03/27/1-first-nations-teens-walk-1500-km-to-raise-awareness/ Thu, 28 Mar 2013 03:58:02 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=9808 Six young people and a guide walked 1,500 kilometres to bring awareness to the issues of First Nations people in North America. The walk was inspired by the Idle No More movement.

They called their walk, “The Journey of Nishiyuu.” In Cree, “nishiyuu” means “the people.”

The group left the Cree community of Whapmagoostui in Quebec on January 16. Along their walk, more than 300 people joined them; thousands more gathered with them at the end of their journey, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 25.

Along the way the group stopped at aboriginal communities. They also visited Victoria Island where Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence recently held a hunger strike to protest the Canadian government’s First Nations policies.

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