Raoul Bittern-Stevenson is now a proud Indigenous youth. He didn’t know much about his culture. He was surprised to learn about that there were Saulteaux; he thought all native or aboriginal people were the same. Before he came to SEED Winnipeg, he says, “I had a bad mentality, uneducated.” He took the financial literacy courses at SEED and now he’s a facilitator. To teach, he is learning. He’s speaking to Elders and pillars in the community about berry-picking, medicine wheels, and the teachings. And the hard things: residential schools, colonization, and assimilation. He’s basing financial literacy on Indigenous culture and introducing lived experiences in the courses.
When you have no money, financial literacy is not the best thing to talk about
Posted on July 9, 2019 by Terry Massey
Raoul Bittern-Stevenson is now a proud Indigenous youth. He didn’t know much about his culture. He was surprised to learn about that there were Saulteaux; he thought all native or aboriginal people were the same. Before he came to SEED Winnipeg, he says, “I had a bad mentality, uneducated.” He took the financial literacy courses […]