Riley Yesno will deliver the keynote address at VIU’s Indigenous Speakers Series event on November 22. Riley Yesno is part of a generation of Indigenous youth who have grown up with the term reconciliation occupying an ever-increasing share of Canada’s national dialogue. Her talk is called “The ‘Reconciliation’ Generation: Indigenous Youth and the Future for Indigenous People.”Yesno grew up in Eabametoong First Nation, also known as Fort Hope, in northern Ontario, and Thunder Bay. She is researching how Indigenous youth feel about reconciliation and what they want the future to look like. For more information, visit the Indigenous Speakers Series homepage.

Source: CBC News November 16, 2023 06:57 UTC