When Gabrielle Fayant picks up a drum, she's got more to think about than keeping a beat. Lifting Indigenous youth upBut before Fayant's mother died, she had "sacrificed everything so I could have a better life," Fayant says. In 2012, Fayant and others started the Assembly of Seven Generations (A7G), an Indigenous owned and youth-led non-profit to support and empower Indigenous young people. I want them to feel good about themselves, and to not just feel like they're getting by," Fayant explains. "We knew how quickly Indigenous youth voices get tokenized, and we did not want to create another form of this, where Indigenous youth would be putting their concerns and voices out only to be swept under the rug," Fayant says.

Source: CBC News March 27, 2019 07:52 UTC