Janna Wale

Restoring, not changemaking: highlights from Indigenous Changemakers

By: Jonah Lazar, Staff Writer Indigenous Changemakers was a Zoom webinar hosted by the West Vancouver Memorial Library on July 8. This event brought into dialogue three notable Indigenous community members in the arts industry. One was Rebecca Baker-Grenier of the Kwakiuł, Dzawada̱ʼenux̱w, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh nations, a fashion designer featured in New York Fashion Week and Vogue. Also taking part in this conversation was Julian Brave NoiseCat, a champion Powwow dancer, author, and the first ever Academy Award-nominated Indigenous filmmaker from Turtle Island (North America). Rounding out the cast of this talk was Janna Wale, a Gitxsan and Cree-Métis climate…

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