Original Film Title: Ancestral Rivers
Director’s Name: Taylor Smith
Producer: Taylor Smith
Country of Origin: Canada
Country of Filming: Canada
Language: English
Runtime: 22 minutes 58 seconds
Film Description:
The Indigenous Youth River Guide Training (IYRGT) program aims to remove barriers and create opportunities for youth to learn land-based skills such as flat-water and whitewater canoeing, wilderness medicine and whitewater rescue training in order to become wilderness guides. The goal is to improve self-esteem, leadership, self-determination and expose youth to potential career opportunities all while centering Indigenous languages and knowledge. This is the first IYRGT cohorts story