Seventeen-year-old Talon Pascal has spent years learning ancient, nearly lost Indigenous skills. From hunting on horseback to building pit houses, flintknapping and constructing bows and arrows, Talon aims to live off the land just as his ancestors did.

Grade 10 student Nevaeh Pine is a proud Ojibwe teen from Garden River First Nation who uses public speaking to advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people. She also helps launch her school’s first assembly for Red Dress Day.

Sixteen-year-old Dakota and Ojibwe warrior Isaac Garcia started “Isaac’s Blessing Bags” in elementary school to collect and distribute essentials to the unsheltered population in St. Paul, Minn. He rallies both classmates and family to help with the project.