I'd like to clarify something. The phenomenon of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls comes from two places.
One is the trauma caused by the colonizer and the men learning to be abusive. That's one thing. As Chief Lorraine Augustine mentioned, there are non-indigenous men in power who are also responsible for the deaths, the murders and the disappearances of indigenous women. That's really important to state.
Getting back to your question, it's happening magically and organically here in Winnipeg. A women's crisis centre and women's shelter approached me and some other men in 2016. They passed tobacco. They asked us to create a healing program and a healing place for men, and actually offered up their sacred space. They invited us into their safe place to work on ourselves and to heal so that we could give back and be helpful in the community.
I work with boys. I work with young people. I work with men. That was the first men's group of its kind in Winnipeg. Now, on any day of the week there's a place for a man to go to be with other men and learn of the sacredness of women as life-givers and matriarchs.