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Alberta girls hope Justin Bieber can help dispel native stereotypes

 CALGARY- A group of Alberta students are getting Bieber Fever, all in an effort to educate one of the world’s most popular performers about their lives.

The girls from the Morley reserve made a video showing them lip synching and dancing to one of Justin Bieber’s most famous songs, ‘Baby.’

The video was seen by thousands of people, and a number of tweets were sent to Bieber to show him what their community is capable of.

The plan to was to dispel some negative stereotypes about their community following a misinformed comment the teen crooner made to a magazine.

This past summer, Bieber told Rolling Stone that he was under the impression that being native means you get free things.

“I hear a lot of people say [natives] get free education, they are all drunks, all these awful stereotypes,” said Sue-Ann Facchini, who works for the aboriginal health program out of the University of Calgary. “They’re not like that, and I wanted people to see there is hardship and so much beauty and so much goodness.”
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So, Facchini entered a number of contests, in hopes of winning tickets to Bieber’s show happening in Calgary on Friday.

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In a twist of fate, she won a prize package worth $7,000-which includes enough tickets for all the girls to go to the big show.

“There’s a lot of bad stuff [on reserves] suicide rates are huge there are hardships going on. These kids go home to mother’s not being alive, really horrible stuff,” Facchini said. “I wanted to inspire them that dreams can come true. If you work hard enough things like this can happen.”

The girls don’t think Bieber has seen their video yet, but they plan to try and give the DVD and a traditional gift to someone in his entourage during the big show.

You can view their video below:

With files from Jill Croteau
 

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