Youth Share Their Experiences During the Pandemic

Host Leah Lemm (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe) explores how Indian
Country in MN is responding and adapting to the current pandemic
health crisis.


 


Today on the show, Host Leah Lemm hears what’s on the minds of
Native youth in Minnesota.


Leah chats with Caley Coyne (Athabaskan and Yup’ik) a 10th grader
from Saint Paul.  Caley shares her reflections on distance
learning, missing powwows, racial justice, and new hobbies. 


 


Reporter Melissa Townsend talks with 13-year-old Rizal Agaton
Howes (Anishinaabe), who lives on the Fond du Lac reservation
with his family. Rizal and his family are participating in
unschooling, and he shares how that is going and what he misses
most, since COVID came to Minnesota. 


 


It was back in March, when Governor Tim Walz announced that
schools would close.  Since then, school officials,
teachers, and parents have grappled with so many considerations
like IEP plans, mental health support and nutrition services, and
basic instructional materials. We have talked quite a bit on
those topics on this program. Today we turn to young people to
find out what is most important to them during this time.