When Dakota Swiftwolfe first joined the youth advisory committee for Restoring Our Roots, a 2018 land-based retreat for Indigenous Youth, she didn’t know the extent to which her involvement would inform a growing sense of confidence and comfort in herself.
Restoring Our Roots was a precursor to a new project called Land as Our Teacher, which launches November 19 at Concordia’s 4TH SPACE.
“I was this broke university student,” says Swiftwolfe, a Cree undergrad double majoring in women’s studies a