Annual program hosted by First Nations University of Canada helps participants brainstorm business ideas and skills they can bring back to their communities
Participants in the 2024 Indigenous Youth Entrepreneurship Camp, which took place at the First Nations University of Canada’s Regina campus.One week seems like an ambitious timeline to build out a business and pitch it to professionals, but that’s what 18 Indigenous youth from across the country came together to do this summer.
“The goal is to give these students a university experience. They stayed on campus for five days. They were here the whole time and they lived in the dorms,” Mr. Bird says. “We just want to show them that in business, you still can – just by being who you are – actually give back. if they take business or they go into education or social work or health … as long as they’re seeing that confidence and that ability to move forward and say, ‘Yeah, I have something to give’ and see themselves in those places,” adds Mr. Bird, a member of the Peepeekisis First Nations.
One of the presentations Mr. Bird says really impressed him and the judges this year came from an Innu student. At just 16 years old, she created a business plan for an Indigenous tourism company that would connect three communities along a river in Labrador. Visitors would travel the river in canoes, stopping in each community for a night, living and eating off the land and from the water for three days upriver followed by three days back.
“We had a youth from Fort Qu’Appelle who had such a great idea but was really struggling with it and I feel coming to the camp gave her a lot of confidence to move ahead with it,” Ms. Lumberjack says. “There are a lot more camps coming up I really wish I had this program that these programs were promoted a lot more for Indigenous youth,” Ms. Lumberjack says.
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