Kanesatake youth featured at Dawson – Penticton Herald

Dawson College’s Indigenous Peoples’ Week, which took place this week, has been a yearly staple of the Montreal CEGEP’s event calendar, thanks to the hard work from the First Peoples’ Center.

Jessica Quijano, who works as a social worker with the First Peoples’ Center and organized the week along with students, said that first and foremost, it was important that the students put on activities that they wanted to do.

“We have so much talent within the student body,” said Quijano.

“It’s more about being a celebration of the week. When we talk about First Peoples, we almost always talk about the really difficult things, the sadness. But there’s just so much positivity out there. We have such a good time at the First Peoples’ Center. We just wanted to extend that to the College.”