Youth Indigenize the Senate of Canada before the committee. As the inaugural event was focused on celebrating National Aboriginal Day in Canada, the Indigenous youth leaders shared their success stories with the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples. Andrea Andersen "Inuk from Makkovik, Nunatsiavut" Jacquelyn Cardinal "Nehiyaw from the Sucker Creek Cree First Nation on Treaty 8 Territory, Alberta" Perry Kootenhayoo "Alexis Nakota Sioux First Nation, now lives in Edmonton" Modeste McKenzie "Dene Métis from La Ronge, Saskatchewan" Tiffany Monkman "Métis from Winnipeg, Manitoba" Jennifer O'Bomsawin "Wendat and Abenaki from Odanak, Quebec" Stephen Puskas "Inuk from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories" Holly Jane Sock "Mi'kmaq from Elsipogtog First Nation"
Yellowknife limited to the Kam Lake and airport subdivisions. Jolliffe Island sits in Yellowknife Bay and is public land under the jurisdiction of the City of Yellowknife after a land purchase when Imperial Oil vacated the site. The island is surrounded by a community of houseboats who have been living off the grid since 1978. Their relationship with the city is complex and often strained as the houseboats are popular with sightseers, but at the same time they live outside of the city's tax jurisdiction while using city services leading to lawsuits and tensions with the City of Yellowknife. Yellowknife has