Archive - Apr 21, 2011

Vote for Your Favourite Indigenous Youth-made video sharing stories

The 7th annual imagineNATIVE tour has wrapped up! We have 10 short videos created by youth in Fort Albany, Timmins, Thunder Bay and Parry Sound and WE NEED YOUR VOTES! We will send the filmmaker whose video has the most votes to the imagineNATIVE Film Festival this October so CAST YOUR VOTE NOW!

From http://www.imaginenative.org/newsdetails.php?id=160

Videoconference with First Nation Youth Highlighting “Project 60” to Claim Their Vote

First Nation Native Youth Use Social Media to Highlight “Project 60” to Claim Their Vote

In light of the upcoming federal election, First Nation Youth are staking their role by highlighting the emerging importance they are going to be taking in Canadian electoral politics.  “Project 60” comes from the fact that it was 1960 before First Nation people won the right to vote in Canadian federal elections.