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Urban. Indigenous. Proud: Places to Gather and Learn

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This segment highlights a day in the lives of Indigenous students at N’Swakamok Alternative School and emphasizes the value and necessity of Indigenous alternative and community spaces. Students share their stories, aspirations, obstacles, and accomplishments. Run in partnership with the N’Swakamok Indigenous Friendship Centre, and as a satellite of Sudbury Secondary School, N’Swakamok Alternative School offers students a supportive and culturally activated space to gain life skills as they pursue their academic and personal goals. Part of the "Urban. Indigenous. Proud" series.

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Indigenous woman with braided pigtails wears a traditional red costume with glitter and a cape with long multicolored fringe as she dances.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 1
8 minutes 47 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Side view of an industrial kitchen counter with 4 women wearing white hair nets while they prepare to mix and bake something in silver mixing bowls and springform pans. 1 woman on the left side takes a paper from a woman on the right.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 2
10 minutes 5 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Team of lacrosse players in uniform form a circle on the side of a rainy neighborhood street at dusk. They hold their black and white lacrosse sticks up and together in the center, and some players wear Santa hats.
Urban. Indigenous. Proud
Episode 3
8 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12