Status of Women committee  Our people need a healing lodge right in our own communities, to be run by indigenous people rather than non-native people because they don't know about our culture. They don't know about our spirituality. They don't know what our needs are.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Where I come from, we refer to our elders as traditional people, the ones who carry on the language, the culture, the spirituality, and the older people as “seniors”. There's always a misconception, everywhere I go, when they talk about “elders” and “seniors” or “older people”.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  My name is Roseann Martin, and I'm from Listuguj, Quebec. I'm a residential school survivor. I'm also a sixties scoop survivor. In my community, we had 35 members way back when, from 1929, who attended these schools. The majority of our families that eventually came back to the c