Our Dreams Matter Too

Tired of going to school each day in crumbling buildings, First Nations children and youth across Canada created a report about their right to equal education. The multicoloured bubbles represent children's dreams — their optimism and their fragility. The red, yellow, white, and black bubbles on the cover of the report bear the colours of the medicine wheel and are separated from the other bubbles. The artwork asks whether the dreams of First Nations youth are as important, and therefore should be as well nurtured, as the dreams of non-Native youth.