The Premiers Peuples project, or p1P project, part of the MultiNumériC Action Research project, was designed to help Grade 6 students become better citizens by developing their understanding of the realities of First Peoples of Quebec and Canada. It is part of an initiative to co-create pedagogical projects to support the development of digital competence through multimodal media literacy among students. As part of the p1P project, students were able to mobilize these skills in addition to those linked to other areas of learning, including the social sciences. The co-creation experience is presented in four stages: portrait, process, project and production. Students were invited to develop and update their knowledge of First Peoples’ realities, with a particular focus on present-day realities. Following a planned process (get informed, choose, produce and circulate), the students were able, through digital productions, to highlight the learning they wanted to share with their peers and the community. The Premiers Peuples project showed that collaboration between the academic and research communities is both possible and fruitful.