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Grand Council Treaty No. 3 does implement a four directional governance model. We do operate within traditional laws. One of our primary traditional laws is Manito Aki Inakonigaawin, our resource law, which is very important when we talk about emergency management with respect to floods and fires as well as when we talk about resource revenue sharing from an indigenous perspective.
Within our laws, we have protocols, so when we've had to do evacuations for emergencies, oftentimes our communities want to go west. We have a traditional protocol by which we contact, in Manitoba, the Southern Chiefs' Organization and the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs. Our grand chiefs talk to their counterparts in Manitoba and ensure that, when we're doing an evacuation that they know that we're coming into the Treaty No. 1 lands. Treaty No. 3 and Treaty No. 1 work together collectively, so that when our members are in hotels in Winnipeg, there is the continuity of the Anishinaabemowin language. Again, because those traditional protocols are in place, we have language and cultural continuity, and we have supports to ensure that everyone works well together.
Similarly with respect to our child welfare agencies when we're moving families, there are families that are in crisis, so our child welfare agencies also have a protocol in place by which they help one another. They support the families if they go west, but they could potentially also go east, so some of our communities are evacuated into Thunder Bay. Again, the child welfare agency in Thunder Bay, which is Dilico, works with our child welfare agencies, and in this case, for Grassy Narrows it would be Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services. Both of those agencies work collectively together to ensure the well-being of the families. With respect to children, our law is Abinoojii Inakonigewin, which is child well-being. When we talk about Abinoojii Inakonigewin, it's not children in care; it's all of our children, all of our families. Our law doesn't necessarily make those distinctions of a child in need of protection. It's the child, all of our children. We all have that responsibility to care for that child.
Similarly with MAI and our resource law, we have a responsibility to care for all of the 55,000 square miles of our territory.