Sherri Mitchell speaks truth to youth
Subject: Activism
Themes:
21st Century
Civil Rights
Environmental Issues
Indigenous Rights
Peace Makers
Women's Rights
Age groups:
Elementary School
Middle School
High School
Homeschooling
Resource type: Video
AWTT's education director, Connie Carter, interviews indigenous rights advocate Sherri Mitchell about traumatic events in her youth that propelled her to become an activist. And Sherri's advice to young activists: learn from your elders, education yourself and heal your own wounds, seek to change hearts and minds (beyond legal advances), and realize that this is not a sprint but a movement for the long haul.