Black Indigenous Solidarity Program

About the Black & Indigenous Solidarity Program 

The Black and Indigenous Solidarity (BIS) Program facilitates spaces for Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous youth to identify the necessities, roadblocks and avenues for solidarity between one another. This program identifies the multitude of connections between Black and Indigenous communities, through an exploration of history, systems of oppression, and pathways to liberation of these communities. The BIS Program seeks to form long-lasting ties of solidarity and allyship between Black, Indigenous and Afro-Indigenous youth while recognizing the inherent intersection of Indigenous sovereignty with Black liberation. Applications for the BIS program are currently closed.

Current Projects:

• Pathways to Black & Indigenous Solidarity – Community Consultation Report 

Past Projects:

• All About Black Joy – the Heart of Black History Month Panel (recording linked below)
• Community Consultation Sessions: a space of knowledge sharing for youth to reflect on important topics to be showcased within BIS Programing as well as roadblocks to Solidarity that should be studied and addressed for true solidarity & allyship between their communities.  
• Cohort 2: a program aimed at engaging Black, Indigenous & Afro-Indigenous youth in the creation of a BIS curriculum to provide an educative tool that was created to be shared amongst communities to establish access to important knowledge to facilitate solidarity between Black & Indigenous communities.  
• Cohort 1: The Stories They Don’t Tell was an arts-based program & art show drawing from powerful expressions of Black & Indigenous Solidarity taking place in response to uprisings for liberation exploding throughout Turtle Island in the aftermath of the pandemic. This program used art to highlight the kinship and connection between Black & Indigenous communities and was an avenue for participants to showcase their learnings and discoveries.