Allen is Anishinaabe and Coast Salish from Magnetawan First Nation. The Grade 12 student at Parry Sound High School is also a member of NNDSB’s Indigenous Youth Circle and Student Senate. He wants to show the Board what matters to Indigenous students. Allen says it’s important to him to share Indigenous students’ great ideas and goals, and hopes he is able to make change.
Biindigen
Mii gwi Anishinabek wewena nkenmaaminak dependajig maa kiing.
"We acknowledge in a good way, the original people of the land here"
We value the cultures, histories and relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island (North America)