Status of Women committee  When an aboriginal girl comes into the Native Women's Transition Centre, we have a lot of programs. We also have our culture. I'm the elder for the Native Women's Transition Centre. I teach them who they are, to find themselves as an aboriginal person, and to be proud of who they are.

Status of Women committee  Yes, it is. It is.

Status of Women committee  What is going to help in the reserve--because I go and visit in the reserve, and I have learned a lot in the western society, and I bring back the good part into my home and to my daughters--is for the women, as I always say, to use their voices. I have to use my voice. I have to fight for who I am.

Status of Women committee  Yes. If we could have the voice.... I'm fighting for my reservation women to have that voice. Get into the chief and the council. Vote for each other to have that voice. I fight for rights for the women in my reservation because I have granddaughters, and I would want my granddaughters to leave their home and their husbands to live comfortably with what they have earned in that home.

Status of Women committee  All right. I can't talk really fast--I'm not an auctioneer--so bear with me. To begin with, my name is Jojo Sutherland. I'm going to give you my own experience. I had to leave my reservation because of family violence. On the reservation in the seventies, family violence was an everyday thing.