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ABOUT THE WEBSITE

This interactive website is our way of giving the Indigenous community a place to express their identities and connect with others. It's a space where you can speak with pride and listen with respect. Please flag any content you find inappropriate to notify our team.

HOW IT WORKS

Enter the interactive experience to create a customized badge that represents your identity. The colours, words, symbols, and the journey itself, are all customized by your responses.

As Indigenous Peoples, we are claiming our identities and connection to our cultures in our own original ways.

Take the journey to claim your identity. Then discover others to see how you connect.

Enter the interactive experience to create a customized badge that represents your identity. The colours, words, symbols, and the journey itself, are all customized by your responses.

There are many different elements that make you who you are. Tell us which ones are most important to you.

Click to select the elements that apply to you.

My community is made up of people who share the same…

Click and drag each element to show how much they define your community.

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What kind of role do you take on in your family?

Click and drag each element that applies to you.

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Think of the people you surround yourself with. Do they tend to be…

Click and drag the indicator to show how much one of these groups describes your social circle.

Think of your personal interests: a favourite hobby, topic or pastime. Does yours say a lot about you?

Click to choose the most accurate statement.

Are you passionate about a certain cause?

Click to choose the most accurate statement.

Do you live-to-work or work-to-live?

Click and slide the indicator left or right to select how much a statement applies to you.

There are different sides to your well-being. Which are you most focused on?

Click and drag to define an amount for each.

Some Indigenous cultures embrace multiple gender identities, including those that change over time. Is your gender an important part of your identity?

If this is an important part of your identity, your answers will help connect you with others who gave a similar response.

If this is something you want to share in your own words, keep going until you reach the “Personal Message” portion of the experience.

You can also skip this question below.

Click and drag to show how much you agree with one of these answers.

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Your values guide your thoughts and actions. What have been the biggest influences on your values up to this point?

Click to select the values that apply to you.

How connected are you to the language of your cultural background?

Click to choose the most accurate statement.

How connected do you feel to your cultural traditions?

Click to choose the most accurate statement.

How outspoken are you about what you believe in?

Click to choose the most accurate statement.

Tell us who you are in your own words.

Instructions: Type a short description about anything that makes you, you. It could be your heritage, ancestry, gender identity or family roles.

This will appear publicly on the site alongside your personal graphic.

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Please tell us who you are before continuing.

HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES

“I am proud to speak my mother tongue; to preserve my culture through language.”

“My connection to my culture grounds me. I am proud to be Cree.”

“I am proud to celebrate the identity my ancestors were ashamed of.”

“I can trace my lineage back to Louis Riel. I am so proud to be Métis.”

“I am a proud Inuit woman. I love sharing my beautiful culture.”

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It's recognizing a connection within yourself; a connection to your heritage, customs and traditions. It's a connection that goes beyond blood, the land you live on, your legal status or the language that you speak. Indigenous Peoples have many names, varied ties to our communities and different relationships with our cultures. We are who we need to be.

What is Identity

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Click the identities to see how you connect.

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Select words along the circle to see identities who share a strong connection with that trait. Or select identities within the circle to see what traits you have in common.

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