February 17, 2014 - 3:41am
NOTE: The following story features VIU Education grad Tina Walker and her work instigating change on Penelakut Island
Published in the Victoria Times Colonist, Feb. 15, 2014
By Sarah Petrescu
Kara Smith was nervous at first, hearing a class of big- city kids from Vancouver would be visiting her tiny Island First Nation for three days.
“Then I got excited,” said 11-year-old Kara. She started to look forward to having new people to play sports and share her culture with.
Kara is from Penelakut Island, a First Nations community of about 300 people in the Southern Gulf Islands.
[READ MORE]( http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/blogs/penelakut-island-kids-welcome...)
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