Award Name/Title: Helen Bassett Student Award
Amount: Various of $1,000
Application Status: Closed
Application Due Date: July 16, 2021
Awards Details:
Every year, NWAC hands out the Helen Bassett Commemorative Award to four young Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, or gender-diverse students in the amount of $1,000 each.
The awards are made possible by the generous donation of Helen Bassett, an Ontario artist and passionate advocate for the advancement of Indigenous women and for fair solutions to Indigenous land claim issues.
She directed open letters to Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his cabinet in 1980 and again in 1983, proposing that a tax be levied on all land transactions in Canada, with a royalty paid to Indigenous people. She outlined her ideas in Native Rights. In her selflessness, she specified NWAC as one of the beneficiaries of her estate. This has helped to sustain our post-secondary student awards program to this day.
Awards are provided to four Indigenous youth from each of the four directions: North, South, East, and West.
Criteria
Applicants must:
- Be currently pursuing post-secondary studies (priority is given to students who are studying law or are in a law-related field)
- Demonstrate financial need
- Be an Indigenous woman, gender-diverse, or Two-Spirit person under 31 years of age
- Demonstrate a commitment to improving the situation of Indigenous women and youth in Canada politically, culturally, economically, or otherwise
To apply visit the website: Helen Bassett Commemorative Student Award • Native Women's Association of Canada (nwac.ca)
There is no Application Form need to be downloaded.