Lesley Hampton- 2023 YIE Award
2023 Lesley Hampton Owner, Creative Director, LESLEY HAMPTON Lesley Hampton is an Anishinaabe Artist and Fashion Designer focused on mental health awareness, body positivity, and authentic representation in fashion and media. Lesley is a member of Temagami First Nation, located in northern Ontario, and she identifies as an adult ‘Third Culture Kid’ with her formative [...]
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Dakota & Jesse Brant – 2022 YIE Award
2022 Dakota & Jesse Brant Co-Founders of Sapling & Flint Teyotsihstokwáthe Dakota Brant & Yonenyà :kenht Jesse Brant are twin sisters and Mohawk turtle clan women from the village of Ohswé:ken (Six Nations of the Grand River Territory). They are co-founders of Sapling & Flint; a wholesale & retail jewellery manufacturer specializing in gold & sterling silver, [...]
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Erica Daniels – 2021 YIE Award
2021 Erica Daniels Founder & Owner, Kejic Productions Erica Daniels is Cree/Ojibway from Peguis First Nation. She began her journey through Just TV, a multimedia program for at-risk youth in the inner city of Winnipeg. Today, she is an award-winning director and producer and, at just 29 years old, owner of her own media company Kejic Productions. [...]
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Shelley Stewart – 2020 YIE Award
2021 Shelley Stewart Owner, Bar S Ventures Raised in Douglas Lake on her parents’ ranch, Shelley Stewart’s father was a rancher and logger and her mother, an accountant. At age 8, Shelley told her father she would buy a logging truck when she got old enough so they could work together every day. At age [...]
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Kylik Kisoun Taylor – 2019 YIE Award
2019 Kylik Kisoun Taylor Owner/Guide, Tundra North Tours Kylik is of Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Scandinavian descent. He grew up in Ontario hunting, trapping and mushing dogs with his father. In 2003 Kylik made a permanent move to Inuvik, Northwest Territories where he felt a deep connection to his Inuvialuit and Gwich’in roots, his family, the [...]
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Jordan Jolicoeur – 2018 YIE Award
2018 Jordan Jolicoeur President & CEO, Carvel Electric Jordan Jolicoeur has proud Métis roots originating from the Interlake Region of Manitoba. Carvel Electric, founded by Jordan's father Sylvio in 1997, had Jordan and his older brother Joel working evenings and weekends learning the electrical trade. Jordan, always an entrepreneur at heart, has a passion for [...]
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Isabell Ringenoldus – 2017 YIE Award
2017 Isabell Ringenoldus Isabell Ringenoldus (First Nations), owns and operates TAWS Security, which provides physical security, mobile patrol security as well as many technological solutions and value added services to empower their clients and staff. TAWS Security is based on the Fort McMurray #468 First Nation in Anzac, Alberta. 100% of their ownership and management [...]
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Jacob Pratt – 2016 YIE Award
2016 Jacob Pratt Jacob Pratt is the founder and creative director of Wambdi Dance, and is a Dakota/Saulteaux member of the Cote First Nation in Saskatchewan. Wambdi was started in 2012, and is a First Nations performance and events company that provides music and dance performances, cultural camps, youth motivational workshops, and traditional storytelling. Wambdi’s [...]
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Kendal Netmaker – 2015 YIE Award
2015 Kendal Netmaker Kendal Netmaker, Sweetgrass First Nation, Saskatchewan is the Founder and CEO of Neechie Gearâ„¢ - a lifestlye apparel brand conceived and built in part to empower Aboriginal youth through participation in sports. Have questions about CCIB Awards?Frequently Asked QuestionsSign up for the newsletter Find out about upcoming gatherings, latest news and CCIB [...]
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Savannah Olsen – 2014 YIE Award
2014 Savannah Olsen Savannah Olsen, Cree from Saddle Lake, Alberta is the proud proprietor of the Old Faithful Shop located in Vancouver's historic Gastown district. The shop is a modern day version of a general store that would have existed on its cobblestoned corner street over a hundered years ago. Savannah's store boasts simple hand [...]
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