Flying Dust woman takes part in transatlantic boat trip
Cheryl Bear is a young woman from Flying Dust First Nation on a trip she will never forget. She’s in England right now, but it wasn’t hours of flights that got her there; she is aboard a ship on an epic transatlantic voyage.
Bear is facilitating 45 Indigenous youth on a ship as part of a program called M’sit No’kmaq – All my Relations. The ship departed at the beginning of August, and just docked over the weekend.
She said the overall mission is to show Indigenous youth they have not only the strength and courage to sail across the Atlantic, but to succeed in life.
“The programs we have done are built around giving them that sense that they are loved,” she said. “It is also to show them they belong and they are important, to empower them by rooting everything we do in culture, ceremony and prayer.”