Shield Your Rights is a technology-based project involving\nsix Indigenous youth from across Ontario, who collaborate to design a digital\ngame that addresses youth\u2019s rights when dealing with the police. The game\nincorporates the Seven Grandfathers\u2019 Teachings, guiding principles for many\nIndigenous cultures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario, the project develops\nan idea generated during the 2017 Aboriginal Youth Designing a Better Justice\nSystem conference. It responds to the calls to action in Feathers of Hope: A\nFirst Nations Youth Action Plan and the Feathers of Hope: Justice and Juries\nReport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since May of 2019, the youth have gathered in Toronto every few months to refine and articulate their ideas for this game-based learning tool\u2014starting with the plot of the game, its design, and the legal knowledge that they want to share with the players. Assisted by public legal education experts, lawyers, Elders, game designers and developers, the youth work to ensure that their proposed game will be used effectively as a public legal education tool by Indigenous youth across Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shield Your Rights is a technology-based project involving six Indigenous youth from across Ontario, who collaborate to design a digital game that addresses youth\u2019s rights when dealing with the police. The game incorporates the Seven Grandfathers\u2019 Teachings, guiding principles for many Indigenous cultures. Funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario, the project develops an idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1232,"featured_media":18091,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-intro-textblocks.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_eb_attr":"","inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18079","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/ojen2024.turnbull.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Shield-your-rights-slider.png","yoast_head":"\n