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| Our Heiltsuk Road Scholar, Ayla Brown is an accomplished singer
and traditional story-teller in addition to her talents as a world traveler. But her focus seems always
to have been on helping others.
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For Vanessa Young, this will be an opportunity to share the dance
culture of her Ojibway ancestors with the Meke dancers half a world away from her home. Following
the powwow trail at home, Vanessa is a Fancy Dancer who will have her full regalia to show the villagers
in Fiji.
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| Metis student host, Mario Dupont is our guide in Australia, excited to
take his travels to a new level. For the past two years Mario and his family have been
the Official Voyageur Ambassadors for the largest winter festival in Western Canada, Le
Festival du Voyageur.
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Our young Inuit host, Jessie Fraser, will explore the history
and culture of one of Mexico's indigenous people - the Maya. Jesse has grown up in one of the most
remote communities of Nunavut. Sanikiluaq is the only town on the Belcher Islands, the most
southernly part of Nunavut, located in Hudson Bay.
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| Our student/host Isaiah Gilson has participated in numerous
spiritual and cultural gatherings as a representative of the Southern Tutchone people and his
Kluane First Nation Band, dancing, singing and drumming.
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Chehala Leonard has some lessons of her own to teach. Growing
up as a Rocky Mountain Cree near the Willmore Wilderness Area of Western Alberta, Chehala learned early the value
of traditional medicines and the ability to live off the land.
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