AKLAVIKyOUTH SHOWCASE NUTRITIONAL VIDEO IN NEW ZEALAND

Whena utumn s emple and b onnie koe decided to walk around a klavik with a camera, asking people about what foods they buy and eat for their nutrition class project, they did not know that their video will take them all the way to n ew Zealand. t he girls’ tongue in cheek commentary as they panned over the elevated prices of fruits and vegetables or interviewed people makes their video entertaining and watchable. t he video was shown to a rctic Health research n etwork.

“ t hey sent it out to the Indigenous Conference in n ew Zealand, and our video got picked. We got selected from a worldwide submission base,” said b onnie.

“We presented it in n ew Zealand to a lot of aboriginal people from Hawaii, n ew Zealand - from all over the world - a ustralia, the us and Canada.” t he video also asks elders what they eat, and their responses of traditional foods were intriguing for the international audience.

The girls are traveling outside of the country for the first time. “But it was good because we are friends and we had each other,” said Autumn. “We learned to work together, being far away from home and everything. It made us stronger to go places and get to know how things are in the world, rather than just staying in a small town.” The girls enjoyed gondola rides and going to the hot springs.

“m ore youth should get involved in stuff like this,” said b onnie. “If they have more awareness, and go to more meetings…youth around here don’t really get into stuff like this often enough. If they do, they’ll come out knowing more information, and more about what they want to do in their life time.”