I think it would be beneficial to that youth if there were an indigenous healer or practitioner alongside with that medical perspective.
Now, we're seeing youth wanting to get back into the culture and doing these things. I think the benefits would be astronomical to have that child know there are, in their own culture, ways of dealing with these issues.
When I work with Dr. Conroy in Toronto—he's a lawyer and a doctor—and we bring the medical traditional healers in with them, the children who come into Anishnawbe Health in Toronto are a lot better off. At least they feel comfortable with the knowledge they are getting.
I really think it needs to be both of those in that scenario...to talk to these children. The trust is coming back to the indigenous knowledge keepers with our young children, and I think when there's a medical professional there, they have part of it. It's the research and knowledge that way, but there's a spiritual element for these children that the knowledge keeper would be able to provide.