By Joyce Jonathan Crone Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Bethany Debassige, proudly wearing her purple CUPE T-shirt, sign in hand, walks the main street of Bracebridge with swarms of other purple  shirts. Twenty-five years old, the experience of standing up for herself is  not new: “Our rights have been taken away; we are doing this to create  change for the future.” Debassige works at Honey Harbour Public School as a custodian. She is  First Nations, originally from M’Chigeeng First Nation on Manitoulin  Island. Debassige, born in Orillia, was raised, “off reserve” and  returned to M’Chigeeng after the death of her father to reconnect with  family. Something was missing in Debassige’s life, and she knew it. At 23  years of age, sheparticipated in a life-changing educational opportunity  on M’Chigeeng, where she learned

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