Indigenous Canadian gets Bangabandhu scholarship
A Canadian student from Sagkeeng First Nation has been selected as the first indigenous female recipient of the Bangabandhu Peace Philosophy and World Peace Scholarship.
Aluk Fontaine Richardson will travel to Bangladesh and conduct research that aims to find common core values between indigenous communities in the country and those of First Nation communities of Canada.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to Canada, Dr Khalilur Rahman and Canada's Southern Chiefs' Organization Grand Chief Jerry Daniels yesterday presented the letter of scholarship at the Bangabandhu Centre in Winnipeg.
She will research on the 1997 peace accord that brought decades-long armed conflict to an end in Chittagong Hill Tracts.
Fontaine Richardson is a recent political science graduate from the University of Winnipeg, where she was the recipient of the Gold Medal for Achievement in a Major.
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