Under the bridge joining the communities of Sheshatshiu and North West River, six teenagers from Sheshatshiu Innu School are busting out their best dance moves and lip-syncing to lyrics blasting out from a portable speaker. They're shooting a music video to go with a song they just made with a team from N'we Jinan Creative Studios. The team travels to Indigenous communities across Canada, collaborating with local youth to write and record a song and accompanying music video. Deanna Jordan-Montague, a Grade 12 student at Sheshatshiu Innu School, says the project is helping the students express a lot of hidden feelings. WATCH | Go behind the scenes as a video gets made in an Innu community: Straight outta Sheshatshiu: N’we Jinan helps kids make their own music Duration 2:23 Featured Video Go behind the scenes in Sheshatshiu as local youth shoot their own music video with N’we Jinan, a crew that does music education with First Nations across Canada.

Source: CBC News October 15, 2023 21:53 UTC