Status of Women committee  I'm the chair of the committee with PSAC, and we have a male vice-chair. We're really pleased to have it that way. We have a national aboriginal peoples circle with PSAC. Karen Wright-Fraser is our female representative for the north for all three territories. We have a male repr

Status of Women committee  Again, I don't apologize for my way of being, but I appreciate your thoughtfulness. There are so many thoughts going through my head. It's a funny thing, because I had to be re-educated too. The term that my husband helped me use was decolonization. I had to be decolonized. I d

Status of Women committee  So maybe we're doing it backwards. Maybe we should be talking about how we're going to share those dollars and how that land produces the medicine, and we should go back to treaty. Maybe we have to start talking about sharing the benefits of those treaties with aboriginal peoples

Status of Women committee  I'm a member of the Lutselk'e treaty first nation. When I lived in the community and my father-in-law Morris Lockhart was still with us, he used to say, about the way our youth were getting educated, that they looked out the window and looked at the land. When I first moved the

Status of Women committee  I really struggle, because you talk about violence against aboriginal women—and I just did a piece about something in Time magazine on this—and you talk about women as if we're separate from the rest of the community, which makes it really hard. If you hurt me, you're going to hu

Status of Women committee  I'd like to see that go back to those who created it, and the funding done for it, and then have a lot more partnerships, with the national Native Women's Association leading that. I know here in the north that PSAC partners. I think we could develop that much more. Because a lo

Status of Women committee  I just want to clarify very quickly that there are women who appreciate the programs. Let's talk about identity. Sharon McIvor went and tried to do that, and said “You can't be declaring who we are. Hear us.” She had everything there, and the government only went so far. So

Status of Women committee  That's exactly what I'm saying. I went through the whole system of education, foster care, and residential school, and what I learned to do through all of that to survive emotionally and feel some kind of dignity was to internalize that racism. I hated being aboriginal. I was as

Status of Women committee  Hi there. I'm just nervous. It's an amazing thing, eh? I want to start by saying that I'm the daughter of John and Mary Head from Mistawasis First Nation. I'm a Dakota Cree woman originally born into Treaty 6. I exercised my nationhood and mobility right and transfered to Lutsel