Accountability leading for lawsuit by Tsuutina Chief Council

(00:01.656) Good afternoon, July sixteenth podcast, and hello to my listeners. apparently I feel the need to address this issue. Major news involving Suchina Nation features massive news, residential projects west of Calgary, an independent housing initiative, and lawsuit involving former lawyer. So As an elder, like this is just my own personal opinion on this podcast. And if anybody wants to do or say anything, hey, I'm open to any kind of discussion. Master Plan Community, this you can find this on Google. The nations partnered with Qua Qualico Community to acquire and develop nearly a thousand hectares of land outside current reserve. The land lease arrangement with mere projects like Redwood Meadows, creating economic benefits through 50 50 cost and profit sharing model. So, like I was I was in my youth when we when my uncle and other partners with Sutana Economic Development started Redwood Meadows. Independent housing plan. The nation has launched its own self financed housing initiative of positioning its own. resources to fund the project rather than relying on standard taxpayers' dollars. Again, you know, this whole thing about trust trust funds. I mean, if you know, you know, and if you don't, well, hey, Google it. Third item. recovery center lawsuit. Sutina is suing a former lawyer over alleged wrongdoing tied to construction of province's signature addiction treatment site on the nation's land Which faces multiple red flags. And as a nation member, when I first heard about this, I was just like, my goodness. You know, the former chief sent one of the female band counselors up to Edmonton to talk on his behalf. And I said, What the hell? You know, wild animals like deer, the male deer sends the doe out into the field to check to see if the coast is clear. In any c (02:24.288) In case hunters are there gonna shoot shoot to kill. Well, that's what our former chief did with this female counselor. And she blatantly, brazenly said, On behalf of the Sutana chief, blah blah blah, I represent this man. I'm going, my goodness, woman, don't you know you're you're the doe sent into the field to check if the coast is clear? Okay. A a while ago, maybe a month ago, I was approached and by by a consultant for the nation and he did say things were going to happen. Now also too because I'm a nation member, I've also had con contact with various nation members who had accounting records and had been contact lawyers long before the elections happened. So there's a lot of stuff and a lot of innuendos that are gonna come out of this like what I'm going to post. Now again to I wanna make su I wanna I wanna let people know that I did try to go to the Toronto Globe and Mail and I did try to read the article. However, they want you to pre be have a prescrip subscription and I I'm not doing that. But Tom Car. Cardoso and Kerry Tate published on July fifteenth this article. First Nations lawsuit against eck lawyer ex-lawyer links Sam Marchetti to Alberta Recovery Site Procurement. Now I might be saying his name wrong. However, I I want you to understand the the webs, the spider webs that have been webbed by that have been sent out by the pr the by this government in Alberta and separatism. these separatist movements and this whole connection with the Premier of Alberta. This is my own personal opinion, okay? Don't shoot the messenger. Now I again I'm going to do or have an article that was done by a reporter whose name is Alana Smith. Now I forgot to r put down like where (04:45.888) Alana works. But anyway, I want you to listen to this and I will have c I will comment on this article. And and I want you to listen to this, okay, because this is this also affects Sutina. It affects Enoch First Nations and also the Metis Association of Alberta because the there are sites of procurement that are linked to this one person who's associated with Daniel Smith. Now understand this, when this treatment center was approved, and this article will t tell you about the the lack of transparency or how things were done without the proper pro policy protocol with our leadership. That's just my personal opinion. Okay, so here it goes. Oops, sorry, I'm still trying to get this going here. So Sam Marchetti, and I'm not too sure if I've even pronouncing his name right, but a lot of this has been going on for quite a few years, until it's come to this point now. So all the powers that be, all the people in Soutina who knew all this and wanted to get this exposed, it's finally come to come full head. Sam Rage, a medical supply entrepreneur who is at the center of a health procurement affair now under investigation by the RCMP, allegedly played an undisclosed role in a construction project for the Tsuudina nation. According to a lawsuit filed in court last week, Meghan Albu the Globe and Mail, a First Nation in Alberta, is suing its former lawyer over alleged irregularities in the procurement of a provincially funded addiction recovery center, saying that he worked with Edmonton businessman Sam Raish and a former chief to sole source a $35 million contract for the facility. That's wood in a nation, a Dene community with roughly 2,500 citizens located near Calgary, filed a lawsuit in the Alberta Court of King's Bench last week against. (06:52.4) Former general counsel Terry Braun alleging negligence, breaches of contract and fiduciary duties, and other wrongdoing in connection with the construction project. Sudina says its recovery center, which was being built by contractor Maluka Holmes Limited, has been marred by red flags, including circumvented procurement processes, overpayments, and duplicated invoices. It also alleges that former Nation Chief Roy Whitney and his family stood to benefit personally from the project. The nation also alleges that Mr. Mr. Mirage, a medical supply executive and entrepreneur, played an undisclosed role in its construction project. For nearly a year and a half, Mr. Morach has been at the center of a separate health care procurement affair that has shaken Alberta politics and prompted investigations by the RCMP and the province's auditor general. According to the nation's statement of claim, Mr. Braun directed that Psuudina's correspondence be sent to Mr. Morache during the project's early days, and an entity connected to Mr. Mrache allegedly paid nearly $50. $50,000 to support community initiatives in the First Nation. Neither Mr. Marech, Mr. Whitney nor Maluka Holmes are named as defendants in the lawsuit, and they did not respond to a request for comment from the Globe and Mail. Mr. Braun, who has not yet filed a statement of defense, did not respond to a request for comment. The allegations have not been tested in court. Mr. Marech first came to widespread public attention as a result of a wrongful dismissal lawsuit filed in early 2025 by a Than Amendment. Mensila Paulus, the former chief executive officer of Alberta Health Services, who was fired by Premier Danielle Smith's government. Ms. Mensela Paulus's lawsuit raised concerns about her agency's contracting processes and alleged ties between senior Alberta government officials and private businesses, including some owned by Mr. Mirage. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in connection to the controversy that sued in a lawsuit marks yet another complication for Ms. Smith's signature addiction treatment initiative. The province has Earmarked up to $350 million for the construction of 11 recovery centers, several of which are on indigenous land. The government has previously said that once they are operational, the centers will be able to offer care to more than 2,000 people each year. Three indigenous communities selected to receive provincial funding for a recovery facility Xudina, the Enoch Cree Nation, and the Matisse Nation of Alberta each hired Maluka homes to build their recovery centers. Since then, however, the construction company (09:21.966) has become tangled in a court dispute with the former business partner and other parties, including Mr. Mirage. The projects, which are at various stages of completion, are now mired in at least a dozen legal proceedings as builders, including Maluka Holmes and its subcontractors, have allegedly gone unpaid, citing the continuing litigation, spokespersons for Tsuudina and the province's Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction declined to comment, planning for the Tsuudina Nation's Recovery Center project began in 2012. According to the nation's statement of claim, the Alberta government, which is paying for the construction of Tsuodina's Recovery Center through grant funding distributed by its Ministry of Mental Health and Addiction, began discussing the project with the nation in April, 2023. Court records show, a few months later, in early July, the nation and the province had signed a memorandum of understanding for a recovery facility, according to documents obtained by the Globe through an access to information request. Later that month, Mr. Brong directed that the nation's correspondence be shared with Mr. Mirage, according to the lawsuit, allegedly writing, Please share this email with Sam. Tsuudina entered into a memorandum of understanding with Maluka Holmes in August. According to the court filing, that document came approximately four months before a formal grant agreement with the province, and before any competitive procurement process, the lawsuit alleges. The agreement between Tsuudina and Maluka Holmes noted that the contractor Had paid the nation $40,000 to support community initiatives, according to the statement of claim, but these funds were instead allegedly paid in three installments, totaling $49,000 by an entity connected to Mr. Mirage. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Braun was aware of a connection between Mr. Marais and Meluca Holmes as early as September 2023, when he allegedly wrote that Mirage Holdings was a holding company for Maluka Holmes. Corporate filings reviewed by the Globe do not indicate that Mr. Miraish or any businesses connected to him have ever had an ownership stake in the contractor. In February, 2024, Suudina awarded the $35 million construction contract to Maluka Holmes. According to the nation's lawsuit, the project was awarded contrary to the nation's legislation and procurement policy. After the contract was signed, Mr. Braun allegedly failed to act on repeated red flags, including duplicated invoices and an internal warning in December, 2024, that the (11:51.484) Contract was not being followed correctly. By mid-2025, Mr. Braun had allegedly directed payments totaling $17 million, roughly half the total value of the project, to Meluka Holmes when only 10% of the work had been completed. Soudina also alleges that Mr. Braun, while working at the behest of Mr. Whitney, the nation's former chief, disregarded the council's directive demanding invoices and the return of $3.75 million in project funds from Maluka Holmes. A majority of Tsuudina's council, including its chief, was replaced during the nation's November, 2025, elections. The nation's lawsuit makes several further allegations about Mr. Whitney, that he had been personally involved in discussions with Maluka Holmes prior to entering into an agreement with the company, and that certain members of his family allegedly stood to directly benefit from a contract with the builder. Mr. Bron left his job as Tsuudina's general counsel last year. It is with mixed emotions that I share. That I am no longer serving as general counsel for the Tsuudina nation, he wrote on LinkedIn in December. His post did not provide a reason for his departure. The Globe reported in March that Maluka Holmes and its principals, father and son Lewis and John Simashkewicz, were suing Mr. Morach and several others. They alleged that Mr. Morach was the undisclosed directing mind of E Holding Court, a business development and consulting company that had worked with Maluka Holmes on recovery centers in three indigenous communities, including Tsuudin. Enough. According to the lawsuit, Mr. Morach worked with others to withhold project payments until Maluka Holmes agreed to pay him. Mr. Marach has denied any wrongdoing in his statement of defense and said his involvement in e-holding was limited to providing casual, unofficial, and informal business advice. Maluka Holmes is itself being sued by e-holding and its owner, Mohammed El Disauki. Mr. El Disauki alleged in a statement of claim filed last summer that Louis Simashkiewicz used a forged share sale agreement to unlawfully obtain. Control of Mr. El Gisalki's business and bank accounts. Lawyers for Mr. El Disalki did not respond to a request for comment. Mr. Simashkiwich and Maluka Holmes have denied any wrongdoing in their statement of defense with a report from Alana Smith. Okay. So that's what I got online. Now again, the the understanding is like (14:19.854) prior to the chief and counsel election, there they had already been given money, like half of the money that was going to be paid to this treatment center. (14:37.282) Like I like I said, this l let me give you a background on this this fellow here because apparently he was instrumental in getting a treatment center that run by indigenous people. the educators of the treatment center were indigenous people teaching indigenous people who actually lived in First Nations, Metis, and Inuit communities. They closed down that center. And and this fellow here, this Mr the one that's r anyway that the fellow he associated with the province here. Now at the same time too There there's this web, like I said, he's also atta this company, these construction companies are also attached with building a a center in Kainai, which is shoddily built as well. Now, understand this too is like the the paper trail in in the whole scheme of things is like whenever there's a chief in council meeting, they they they basically do the paperwork to to cover like okay we're gonna we may we're we got this investment, we're going to protect the people who have invested us. Now understand this for decades, right from the beginning of the industrial schools, Indian residential schools, when they found oil. in first when they found oil in Alberta. The whole thing with oil companies, even with the Calgary Stampede, throw money to indigenous people, just throw it to them. Because we really don't care about them. That's their attitude for First Nations Inuit and Metis communities. So this whole drama of this man who and and also the lawyer allegedly in cahoots (16:37.184) with with our former chief. Now again too, you know, I've grown up my whole like I know that the chief, I know his family. the even even the band counselors who who basically like looked the other way while all this shit was happening. Now prior to that the head controller had all this paperwork of how the chief was siphoning money to his own family. And again, to understand this, various band counselors were doing this. And that's part of the colonial construct of how Indian affairs set up and educated the like the old regime. The indigenous people in my community who who only had a high school diploma and were trained to do administrative work and got their claws into it their entire lives and taught this systemic racism to in terms of administration. Now a lot of people have been buying into this for decades and there's been a small majority of people who ha you know have left Sutina. the the one fellow became a successful person, you know, in a consultant. Our nation member. And in a a band council meeting right after we had our new chief in council, one of the former band members had the audacity to confront this young man and saying, Look, you bit a proposal to Roy Whitney for I don't know, forty thousand consultant fees, blah blah, like how dare you? You're you're rich, and you're trying to take more money from Sutina. This is coming from a Soutina female. Soutina female. counselor in front of the entire chief and counsel band meeting, entire entire nation at the meeting. Now the young man says, Well, Roy Whitney requested this proposal and I submitted it because he wanted just paperwork. He says, but the reality of it is like, yes, this is my company and I'm hiring my own employees in my company to do the consultant work on behalf of the on on my behalf for my nation. (18:48.802) You know, he he's not employed by the nation, nor has he ever been. But here's this band counselor saying, Well, you're asking for this money. And he says, Right now I'm working as a consultant. He says, And if you look at my contract, the only money I'm getting is one dollar. Like he is trying to say to this S Sutana Nation member, I'm only being paid one dollar. Understand this, a lot of the chief and counsels who who just have high school diplomas and who you know, again I call it collective reflective, collective, holistic approach of governance. Like people go, Well, what? No, I'm talking about mental health here. When you have this man who is associated with this treatment center Who also instigated a closure of an Indigenous Healing Treatment Center in Alberta that had ran, had run for decades. I even got trained with them. Like my mother even got trained with them. And and why? Because we know what it's like to live in indigenous communities, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis communities. And what does the Alberta government do? Shut it down. Now, understand this. This person we're talking about also has connections with different First Nations tribes in Alberta. Talk about pretendian cohorts and allies. Now, again, I've grown up amongst white people my whole life, and I've had, you know, like, you know, like again, here's Daniel Smith. being a pretendian cohort and ally and you have this investigative reporter writing her speeches and what does she do? She backstabs her. What does Danielle Smith do? She doesn't care. You know, part of the separatist movement too, like it's it's amazing. It's amazing. Like I I don't want to to overindulge in anything, but but here's here's one of the statements that came from (20:53.166) from Sturgis First Nations that like again let's see if I can get this here. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation Administration Update 6HG Notice to members following Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation's cows and plough settlement. The members per capita distributions were placed in a trust fund. The PCDs for our minors were to be held in that trust fund until our children, born by 2017, turned 18. Jeffrey R.W. RAF Corporation, RAF PC is and has always been the sole trustee of these funds. This means he is responsible for holding them in trust for our children until they turn 18. In 2024 and 2025, 18-year-old members started to report discrepancies in the PCD amounts below the original PCD or excluding interest. We pursued a court application to remove Wrath PC as trustee and for him to pass accounts. We are working to expedite this application given the discovery this week. On July 13, 2026, we became aware of documents suggesting that Jeffrey R. W. Wrath Professional Corporation, operating as Wrath and Company withdrew approximately $12 million from Sturgeon Lake Cree Nations Miners Trust in 2023 and 2024. We discovered these documents through disclosure in the Tal Cree First Nation litigation against RAF PC, reported in the media. This was the first we learned of these withdrawals. We had not seen these before, have not seen financial statements for the miners' trust since 2021, and received only financial summaries in 2022 and 2023. We have no records for. 2024, 2025 and 2026. We have requested financial statements since 2021. We have not received a response. We are deeply concerned about these withdrawals. We are taking all steps possible to protect the trust money and track, trace and secure any illegal withdrawal from the trust. Finally, some members have reported that RAF and Company has advised that the nation has the trust money. This is incorrect. RAF PC remains the sole trustee at present. (23:07.382) Of the miners' trust fund on June 26. Following similar discoveries, Talcree First Nation obtained a court order removing RAF PC as the trustee on their nation's trust. On July 10 and July 15, they received and extended a Mereva order to freeze RAF's assets up to $15 million, the amount said to be withdrawn from their trust. And on June 15, Tal Cree received a receivership order which appoints a receiver to track and trace these funds. We would like to assure our members that That we have watched these developments carefully and are acting accordingly. We will update members as soon as we can in the circumstances. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation leadership Federic down at this fellow, Raf, is the leader of the separatist movement in Alberta, associated with the Premier of Alberta. At the same time, too, this fellow who's who's Sam M-R-A-I-C-H-E, a medical supply entrepreneur at the Center of the Health Procurement Affair, is now under investigation by the RCMP. Okay, so all this connection, all this connection to you know the separatist movement and Danielle Smith. Now get this to the former mayor of Calgary, Mayor Ninshe or former Ninshi, has said he says the corruption another day, another lawsuit. Nahid Nelsh Nenshi. The contractor scandal never goes away. It's all comes back to Daniel Smith's close friend Sam Mar Mureshi. Call for public inquiry right now. Like excuse me. as First Nations and when we talk about poverty, you know, w there this young man, these young men and and women who who have actively done due diligence to to file this lawsuit have done their homework. They they know what they're doing. And and no matter how many times you get up as a individual and you have a leadership discredit you. (25:28.69) And and you keep they keep on discrediting you because they want to keep you silent. Now, I really have nothing to lose. I'm an elder. My background in terms of mental health and addictions and usually like when I'm talking in in when I talk about mental health, I'm not using psychological social work jargon. I'm I just I'm talking as a narr a narrator. But when I knew that they were gonna have this treatment center, I'm going, what for? Like I was in my twenties when I did the first draft for the first detox treatment center. All voluntary. And and just the struggle to keep people working in these centers because of the lateral violence addictions workers were experiencing and still do. Because we know what it's like to live in indigenous Metis and Inuit communities. Like and then you have a pretendian saying like they close down the Nietzsche trip center. They they go and do all this building construction under the guise of the Premier of Alberta, throwing money, oil money to First Nations because they really don't give a damn. Shut them up. Give it to them. And what does our former chief do? This lap dog? This is my own personal opinion. I don't care if it upsets you. But the reality is I sa have sacrificed my most of my life volunteering. first daycare, first treatment center, even advocating for like what the hell the chief paying for Nathan Chasing horse? Twenty years of paying rent for his followers. Even when he was arrested, they paid for all of his followers to come back home. And here I am struggling to say this man is a is dangerous, look at what he has been doing. And nobody really cared. (27:31.79) Why? Because they're holding on to their jobs. You can rationalize it away until it Timbuktu. The reality of it is that it's so entrenched. And the fact that you have a treatment center that's going to be run by non Indigenous people hiring non Indigenous people to work, as well as having clients who are non indigenous being treated in First Nations In Inuit Metis communities. Because this isn't just Sutina, this is Enoch. First Nations and the Metis Association of Alberta. Now Sutana has taken the initiative to challenge this, challenge the paper trail or the money trail of the construction company that has been listed. And all these companies, you know, what are they doing? Doing a quick quick dog paddle so they don't drown. You know, yes, N Nahan Ninji is a right. You as public taxpayers have a right to. Ask for inquiry to this woman, your premier, and also the guy who's a leader of the Separatist Party, this Roth fellow, having connections with First Nations Children's Trust Fund. Okay, and the very fact that four months before the elections or even before the signing of that agreement with the treatment center here, half of that money. Half of that, what, $35 million was already paid out to this construction company by our former chief and counsel? By the consent of the lawyer, whose job is supposed to protect the vulnerable, the most vulnerable in my community. I'm one of those vulnerable people, advocating my whole life. How vulnerable can it be when you don't have a partner, children, nothing, and you're thriving, working for your own? Now imagine tenfold if you're a single parent and the only job you have is working for for a chief who who who's taking money right out of the the mouths of your own babies. Like disgusting, totally disgusting. You know, I I have nothing to lose. I have I don't have anything to gain either. But for me, when I've talked with young people in my community for the past three years. (29:57.922) and just talking to them about my understanding of what Nathan Chasinghorse had taken out of the community and who was supporting him in leadership, not just with Soutinna but all in Treaty Seven. It it like the the paper trail goes and connects. I mean you can look at Jeffrey Epstein and all the things and how he connected. Like even the tip of the iceberg, which you know, hasn't ever been published about racketeering embezzlement and tax evasion. with Nathan Chasing horse in the States. You know, when when you have the chief's relatives who have construction companies and and how he's been associated with Embridge his whole life, his own company, what they call Wild Rose Company or something. Like the connection has always been there and at the expense at the expense of educated Sutina people like myself. or other young people who've gone out to become millionaires, who've worked worked their due diligence to make to make a living, to try and help our the most vulnerable in our communities? Why do you think I do my podcast for? I have nothing to lose. Why do you think this young man or these men who who have been the catalyst for this lawsuit, the one young man only asks for one dollar payment. To help our nation, to help our most vulnerable, because we know what it's like to live in First Nations, Inuit, and Metis community. There's no pretending about it. There's there's no shame. We have no shame. We've we've we've swallowed that shame. You know, we we we've we've buried our loved ones. We we still live with this. And and not once can I say, as I've grown up, have I ever been ashamed to be indigenous? I didn't go around at Bishop Grandin High School pretending I was Mexican, that I wasn't First Nations. I didn't go around, you know, paying milli you know, thousands of dollars for indigenous ceremonies so that people can say, Hey, I am not Catholic, I'm indigenous, look at the medicine people I have around me. Like what do you prove? I don't didn't have to do that. (32:18.967) I didn't have to parade around like that because I know who the hell I am. And I know who my family is. I grew up in the culture. I was born into it. And yet we have so many people in within our community pretending to pretending. Like it's one thing to grow up here. But it's another thing to to look at it and say, so many lifetimes our identity evolves. I'm seventy-four years old. How many identities have I evolved into? And I talk about it in terms of mental health and and just how we have to work our due diligence in trusting people. And in trusting people we're helping because it has an effect on everyone. When you have a self-defeating ideology or ideology, it has a ripple effect. And those people who deny Indian residential school. Deny their own trauma and have have garnered and championed that they're politicians under the Indian Act and like they don't need to heal. Like poo poo on you. Suck it up, buttercup. Get off that cross, we need the wood for a sweat. You know, as the fry bread burns, again, people can laugh and say anything they want. But when it comes to soap operas and what happens in indigenous communities, we have to have humor. Because if we had to deal with it, we'd be crying. I'd sooner say, as the fry bread burns, this is what's happening in Soutina. You know, bless the hearts of our young people for championing this lawsuit against a former lawyer. In in our band meeting, people were standing up saying this lawyer, Braum, Larry Braum. He's a good man. Yes, he's been a good man. He's been living off the tit of Sutana Nation's milk for how many decades? He's not hurting. He's got his own company. He's still associated with indigenous people. But look at what he did to us. And here we have the new chief in council. They're telling the band members, yes, we know him. You know, we we feel hurt too that we have to let him go. But come on. (34:43.011) When you're tak when you're robbing and and hurting the most vulnerable, what kind of what kind of leadership are you? If you cannot say, I'm sorry, you see the door, get out. You mismanaged how we wanted to protect our women and children and and our most vulnerable. My hat's off to the new chief in counsel. I'm there supporting them. And when when they come to me as an elder saying, What should we do with these, you know, these politicians, these corrupt politicians? And some are still on chief and counsel. For me as an elder and for me when I talk to other indigenous female leaders in Alberta and in Canada, we say charge them. Charge them. You know, I I have nothing to be charged against. I've never worked for Soutana Nation at like a like how would I put it, for decades, for years? No. My little stench at education director was e got I was burnt I was burnt so much. Threatened. I said, no, I don't have to do that. You know, my my poor mother, bless her heart, when she started addiction counseling and you know, alwa had to learn how to do budgets and reporting, she did it. My poor mother did it. And you know what? You know what she got for it? She got some young women my age Coming up to her, trying to beat her up, walking into her office. This is just a house. Okay, she wasn't making big money, accusing her of having an affair with their dad. And and I was I wasn't in Canada at the time. When I came home and I found that out, I I confronted the these young women's brother, older brother who was on council. Now I'm not going to disclose the the power that I had over him, but I did say to him, the reason your mother is thinking this way is because she's depressed. (36:47.373) Nobody's paying her attention. By what your sisters are doing, sh they think they're showing her love and and and and attention. But they're not. They're hurting my mother. I said you need to s you need to talk to them and tell to quit being violent towards my mother. And he did, and they stopped. So whatever I can do to help people that are the most vulnerable, I will do it. You know, my my my sister was running for Stampede Indian Princess, and I helped I helped with her let like her speech. And, you know, bless her heart, she said, I didn't think I was going to become princess. And and so she wrote her speech, she did her talent, and when she was up there, there were the other contestants were there. Now one of the contestants was so cocky and conceited. She thought she was gonna win. She had this big smirk on her face, just like, I'm going to win. And even the other contestants told my sister, Can you move aside? I want to stand beside so and so so when she wins I'm there to give her a hug. So my sister stood as they walked, you know, stood made room for her. Then they announced the winner and it was my sister. The look on the woman who lost Like to this day. I mean to this day. I I couldn't believe it. Like like poor sportsmanship. But get this. One of the prizes was a traditional beaded outfit to to win this title. The the lady who designed it was auntie to that woman who thought she was gonna be the Stampede Indian Princess. Do you know what she did? She asked the Indi the the Stampede Indian Day Committee to take back that outfit. That was supposed to be my sisters. Like lateral violence and and just jealousy and nitpicking and cat calling or whatever. You know, my my friend who passed away I think twenty, thirty years now. I was friends with her for thirty years. And I don't want to digress in in in anything like this, but for me, when I talk about the most vulnerable, like yes, my sister was the most vulnerable. (39:07.459) You know, sh she didn't even think she was gonna win. but my friend who I'd been friends with for thirty years, most vulnerable, she had been a a nurse's aide, worked worked in the hospital watching and helping women give birth, and she became a midwife here in Soutina. But the violence that she experienced in her own home, the the the brutality of being beaten and the The terror that that man inflicted on her children. She'd be she'd be walking into the city with her children because she had no vehicle. And then she got a job with social assistance, and I became friends with her. And our friendship lasted 30 years, over 30 years, until she passed away. And even when she died, I organized her funeral. And and all the friendships that I've ever had in my life. I cherish hers the most because she kept my secrets and and even though I she thought I was keeping her secret, I you know, again, what happens in Sutina stays in Sutina. And you know, and it really made me who I am today. I you know, I I know people that we grow up with who commit crimes have to live someplace. So how is this transformative and restorative justice? You know, as much as we're doing this lawsuit against this lawyer and the implications of what's going to happen with within the members in our community who supported this, yes, it's important that people understand. Like it it it's not it's it's easy to manipulate, it's easy to corrupt, it's easy to, you know, sit back and just tell lies. But in in it's it's easy to pr be promiscuous. But the reality of anything in life requires hard work. Requires on trend the requires trust. I know a lot of people say, well honesty. Yeah, well you can you can tell the truth all you want. I mean I you know it's just it's the way you live. But the reality of even though you tell the truth that that (41:29.613) That memory, that memory we carry with us every day in our lives of trust has to percolate up somehow to validate that we can trust another human being. And the way the world is right now, so many people are angry. When my brother went to prison he because he he, you know, with his association with Nathan Chasing Horse, he served his time. And and I supported him because he has children. I supported him to the point where I have people women in Soutena calling me a pedophile for supporting my brother. You know, my brother did his time and he has children. Now he lives in Soutena, and the reality of it is like, yes, he lives in Soutena and and all these other people, like our former chief and another band counselor who've been charged with sexual assault, they'll come back and they'll live in our community too. But the r reality of it is like this is what it means to face ju like injustice. Every day of our lives we live with it. In in our communities because we're holistic and collective. And and even people might say, Well how can you do that? Because we have to trust We have to trust that they will not commit another crime again after this. If you love your community so much you will not do that. Now, I don't know if people even want to understand that or even comprehend the whole nature of why people act the way they act. Like I said, this young man is a millionaire. All he asks for is a dollar in payment. When I lived in Utah, I knew a fellow who had a PhD in clinical psychology, a master's in business, and an undergraduate degree in law. (43:39.228) And or was it business or law? No, let's see engineering, sorry, engineering, undergraduate degree in engineering, a master's in business, a PhD in clinical psychology. Had lived in Los Angeles, converted to Mormonism, lived in Utah, but during the time in Los Angeles he knew Ronald Reagan, used to babysit for him. And so when Ronald Reagan became president, he appointed this fellow who was a Native American to to you know, work with the Bureau of Indion Bureau of Indian Affairs or the State the Interior of the State. And I was trying to get my green card. I had this just just this March I had I was asked why aren't you living in the United States if you've got a green card? I like like I'm sorry, but you know living in Utah for over ten years, when we talk about systemic racism and even how the Mormon church hierarchy and patriarchy that women, you know, like for me as a single woman, I'll never get to heaven because I'm not married to a Mormon man in the in the Mormon temple. No matter how hardy, bitter and diabolical and violent they are to me or misogynistic whatever. Anyway, that's not saying this fellow that I knew who had his PhD in clinical psychology was like that at all. No, by no means at all. But he had his status card and he you know, of course he's a millionaire. He says, I don't know what it's like to live you know, in as a Native American in in on reservations. See in the United States they don't have Metis or Inuit, but in Canada we have First Nations. And so and again under the Indian Act. But this this fellow that I knew, he says, as long as I have my status card, And I show people that I I this is my status card. I don't apply to to the chief and counsel of the the reservation for money or any help with my businesses. He says because because this is genuine pride. Like he's not saying genuine pride. He's telling me that that he doesn't know what it's like to live in First Nations in in the United States. And because of that, he does not really have to have access to that money because he knows they're vulnerable and poor. Now (46:06.603) In Canada, like because again, because of this Indian Act, there are so many for since the Indian Act was implemented, so many indigenous people, we're saying First Nations and you went to make tea, who intermarried, lost their status. Okay, which which is sort of like really a messy situation. But the reality of it is like, you know, come on, suck it up, buttercups. We have our own issues in in our communities dealing with people like our former chief and and also families who will who will do anything to stay on top of the on top of the big cheese. Like like you say, in war torn countries, you have militia going next door to door and neighbor saying, Yeah, take and they what do they do? They take their neighbor and shoot them in front of a firing squad. That mentality i is no different. Here when it comes to working and employment and just how the colonial construct of those Indian agents set it up and how blindly these people who needed jobs who couldn't find employment in the city of Calgary because of systemic racism, and the only jobs they could get would be, you know, dirty janitor scrubbing, cattle prouding, like the h the the dirt, the nitty-gritty dirt like You know, that's that was it. That's that was it. I mean, I'm grateful that my father took all the shit he could in the military, the systemic racism, calling him down and everything. he did it because he loved his children. And and he was an alcoholic. You know, the fact and the horrors that he faced as a child because his father died when he was still a child. And and trying to run away from Indian residential school and being punished when he was caught, to sleep in the attic, the f cold, cold attic where they were keeping the dead bodies of children. Talk about, talk about, you know, who who is the savage, who's the monster, who's the monster in the closet. You know, we look at people who are elected into elected officials, like Danielle Smith, and how she parades around and (48:31.543) you know, throwing money left and right by oil companies. Do you know that Calgary is the only city in Canada that is so similar to any American city, or the most Americanized city in Canada? Why? Because they scover discovered oil. Like Calgary's like the Houston of Texas. You know, when I studied in the United States and they were talking about Canada and even like the whole presidential systems. I was in the United States fifty years ago when the United States churned two hundred. And even the pageantry and the blind loyalty to a flag. and and the reality too, like, my goodness, how many millions of people are in the United States? Like I think Canada's this population wise is the size of California. So, you know, when we're poo-pooing in terms of separating, this is just one little speck of dust. In in the whole eight billion people in the world that Danielle Smith feels that she has so much power, and then you've got this Roth is comp this company, this lawyer, this whoever the hell he is, taking money from Cree Children's Trust Funds, who is the leader of the Separatist Party in Alberta. Wake up! Wake up! You know, as indigenous people. When we see non indigenous people doing shit like this, and you have the audacity to tell us to check ourselves. To check ourselves why? Because you see you we're telling you you're stealing the very milk out of the mouths of our babies. We don't even have sovereignty over our children. You take our children away out of our communities if the mum dies, if they have no support. And then when you appl when you apply and you're you're a degree holding indigenous person applying to be a foster parent, applying to help children, you go through so much red tape to get your house approved, to get everything approved. Why? Because you know they think we're pedophiles? Why? Because you know somebody in our family is a pedophile? Why? All these jurisdictional bullshit (51:00.175) Coming from somebody who doesn't even know me or know First Nations or what it's like to live in First Nations, Inuit or Metis communities, pretending that they do and they're doing God's work, whoever their God is. I mean, throughout my life, you know, my parents, that's how they were raised in residential school, this this imaginative leader of, you know, the the the like some something that was constructed in the old world. So I I mean I I I don't want to bash religion, but the reality of it is you've got to look beyond the religion. You've got to look at these corporations, you've got to look at who's making the money. What's happening with this? It it's amazing, it's amazing, you know, all these things that that have been uncovered. And for me, being in my community and knowing this talk with people like we talk to each other. We're you know, like the I mean really it's it's disgusting when when you think how many times like this McGrath and Malika homes and just the like how how things were awarded to them and like even having ten they've only worked ten percent. Could you imagine? If this were an indigenous company and and the the contract was for thirty five million and you and you were given half of that, even though you only worked ten percent? Because why? The leadership was gonna go into transition? You know, there was a fear that that the former chief wouldn't get in. So they they had to buy their way in to like, okay, it's gonna go through. We've already given you the money. Like this has been a playbook. for decades. And I'm just grateful that our young people have seen it and are putting a stop to it. Now that's Sutananation, but the warning is out there now for Enoch Cree Nation and the Metis Association to take to take the initiative to question how the money has come in through these companies. They have their own lawyers too, so hey, it was really hard to to to let this man go. (53:26.511) 'Cause he made a lot of friends in Soutina, allegedly friends. Because you have to question he would he knew he he knew under the guise of former leader Chief Roy Whitney, he knew. He he he you know the benefits and the contractors and just like Like who who was profiting? You know, in in the long run, you know, when I've lived my whole life burying the people I've grown up with, I know you ca you can't take it with you. You can't take that money with you. So so why try so hard to to play this narrative to, you know, go on the world stage and act like your shit don't stink? Act like you're doing the best you can for your indigenous people. All all people have to do is ask me. Ask me, I'm the most vulnerable. I'm an elder now. I've my status from being a single woman, you know, like there's there's still I there's still always that there's always gonna be that cloud of like, she's a female like you know, this whole like yeah, she ate from the fruit of the tree when creation and Adam and Eve, she's an Eve, don't trust her. my goodness, what can I say? Like I g I get such a kick out of talking with non Indigenous women and because the struggles they have, like like even the fellow who died in the States, you know, like they like the what they call the all the the stuff the perversion starts percolating up, like the the hush money he paid for his his bisexual homosexual affairs. like hello You know, First Nations anyway, Metis communities, you you hey, you th there's a reason we have humor, okay? Like d you know, in in the real in the world where it's non indigenous and you have all these people pretending? Like, excuse me, who's calling the kettle black here? (55:48.28) You know, we we know what's happening within our communities and we we talk about it, we say something. Until we actually get all the ducks in the rope, then then you know, we have some a ba we have a backbone, we have something to fall back on. But but when you have these elected officials in the States and in Canada and in Alberta who who put on these airs of of like I'm this moral moral person. I I've created ice, I've created these concentration camps. I I I you know and I didn't go with Jeffrey Epstein. Like you know, like hello. That's what was happening here in Soutina when it came to Nathan Chasing horse and him being arrested. Scattered. People just scattered. And here I am still talking about Nathan Chasing horse. Rightfully so. You know, different leadership went to housing and threatened. If they did not pay the rent, they would be fired. Like hello. That's what I mean. Do you think people are just gonna roll over and not tell? We it's like my my white friend says, Marina, you know, you say people don't know you went to Las Vegas twice with with a white man. They know Marina. And I'm going, no, no, I didn't tell anybody. Marina, they know. And I said, You know what? As long as I don't have people from Sutina that I'm talking to and and they're not talking to me, like actually calling me and asking me. What I'm grateful they're not calling me and asking me because you know what? What I don't know will not hurt me. Okay? So I put it out there on podcast. Yes, I you know, everything and anything I do in terms of just my privacy. I have a network of friends that I talk about how I feel about human beings because I have to. I'm human. But you know, in the whole process of it, when I see these politicians and these leaders and I'm going, How come you don't do that? How come you don't do your due diligence and trust people and talk about how you feel about someone you're attracted to? Because it's it's it's hard work, it's studying. (58:11.353) There's a reason why people get their bachelor's degree, their master's and their PhDs. They work at it. They they fundamentally work at it because it has to balance. You know, that when you're you're you're making your artist statement, you have to defend your work. So even when I say, I trust this person, I have to defend how I trust this white man. This is this is it's it's work. You have to do it. And and that's what I you know I I require too for my non indigenous friends. Do you have it in you to challenge, be challenged by what people say about me being in a relationship with you? Because whatever stereotype or whatever misogyny, whatever gaslighting, can you see through that and and and be my friend? And if not I still have other people I can talk to who can defend me. It takes work. Like I said, it's an evolution of identity over decades and decades. It's having friends and learning from the mistakes you made and trusting the wrong people. It's learning why did they why do they behave this certain way and understanding. So everything I do in terms of intergenerational trauma, the reasoning why it's important to heal. So that when you be as you grow and you you try advocating for the most vulnerable, you have a backbone to stand on. So kudos to the chief and counselor from Sutina Nation, those young men and women who are doing due diligence to protect the future generations of our children, who who are out there knowing what it's like. What it's like to to bridge that gap. No other First Nations is like that. And I say, I grew up, bust into the city, I was white in the city, came home, was indigenous. Two different environments, my whole life. Now, some indigenous people live their entire lives in urban areas. Some indigenous people live their entire lives away from the urban setting. (01:00:40.301) We are so diverse in our cultures and the ways of thinking and knowing. But the bottom line is it's it's to show compassion, to show forgiveness, to learn how to trust and and and to be to be a good relative. In the Sioux custom we say Wo Pida Midakya Piyowasana, thank you for being a good relative, all my relations. Because that's how we've survived for thousands, what twenty, ten, thousands of years. We've survived this past five hundred years of colonization. The remnants of of the ideologies and the storytelling and the traditions and how we carry that body memory. Do you know in Japan a child discovered that butterflies carry genetic memory? From generation after generation. And it's amazing how he discovered that. So understand this as human beings, what we carry in our DNA, in our body memory. We're a very complex organism that Creator has created. A lot of the things that we see in the Great Mystery all has to do with how we choose to live and where we choose to live. And how we choose to interact with other people. And and and as as it is, it only appears the great mystery somehow just sort of twinkles a little bit when we pass away. So people in the community step back and you know all of a sudden something that you forgot about something that you did with somebody decades ago in a different identity surfaces, and that's what they remember. And that's what they'll carry with them. So it's important to, you know, may be a good relative. I I looked for that in Nathan Chasinghorse because that's part of the culture. When he couldn't show me he was a good relative, because it has to balance out. I'm just grateful I had the opportunity to see him. I want my audience to understand this. I hadn't seen him, hadn't written to him, hadn't talked to him in twenty years. (01:03:08.324) That's the impact of trust, the betrayal of what he did and who he hurt. (01:03:18.97) You know, w that's how much it means to be belong. That's what was taught to me. So with that, I share my podcast and I talk about this this whole separatist movement and how it's affected and has continues to hurt First Nations people inuit and Metis communities. Like I said, this this mental health treatment center is not only Sutina, it's Enoch First Nations as well as the Metis Association of Alberta. I can't even comprehend like the leader of of the separatist movement. as his company took all that money out of the trust of those Cree children in Slave Lake I think it was. I I hope that that you do the research. Like I said, you have to pay to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Tom Caridoso and Carrie Tate. I I haven't, but I I know you can Google information. And and of course, you know it's gonna come to light and I know we're gonna have discussions in Suttana about this and and that's okay 'cause I have no place where am I gonna go? I you know I've my late father would always say I've been shot at, kicked at, and every other at. And my friend in the ho up north who d you know was you know instrumental in in trying to establish a healing healing center. It was she was part of a healing center. And and how they took that away from her. And and it's these people that I mentioned in this lawsuit with this treatment center, this recovery center. That money would have gone to First Nations, actual First Nations sovereignty. It's one thing to have it built on First Nations. It doesn't mean it's gonna be run by First Nations. Do you get my point? (01:05:24.612) This whole process going through chief and counsel is to make sure that it that it's that Sutana Nation has sovereignty over these things. And when it's not, then something's corrupt. So yes, it does mean something. It does mean something to ask questions. And even if it hurts to find the answer, like with that lead that lawyer. He had so many people in band meeting defending him. The betrayal. The absolute betrayal. (01:06:04.215) You know, when I mean it it happens. So for those who are hurt by what I've said, as my cousin my Sioux cousin will say, toughen up buttercup. Or or like my late sister in law would say, get off the cross. We need the wood to make a sweat. You know, or like in if people wanted to call this ser series of podcasts that I do, I'd call it as the bannock burns. And believe me. I I was a child, be even before I came, there were grandmothers and aunties who were saying the same word as the Bannockburns. Because it's it's us matriarchs who who are the backbone of indigenous communities. Why the hell do you think I know what I know? You know, I I I I like when I first started working with youth in northern Alberta, part of the training session was when you go into a community, look around And and find someone who's just sitting at the gas bar every day, just sits there and watch people go by back and forth. Talk to them. Ask them what they see on a daily basis and you'll be surprised what they know. Well that's me. I keep myself very private. I've I've I've been I don't wanna say an instigator, but I have you know, I'm I'm I'm not perfect. I've I've Like my late friend would say, Marina, you haven't hurt anybody. And it's true, I haven't I try not to hurt anybody. She says, Marina, you haven't hurt anybody. Like I haven't taken any any any man away from his wife. I haven't, you know, just you know, just hurting people. I haven't done that. I haven't, you know, c go up to somebody and say, you're a pedophile. You're you know, I but no, I I It it just amazes me just just how bad people don't protect their their their energy and their selves and and even you know, friendships and protecting your friendships. you know, I I try and do this on a daily basis when I when I have a memory of a friend. You know, I'll say a quiet little prayer inside to creator. So embrace their hearts, minds, spirits and souls. (01:08:32.537) with protective reflective healing energy. You know, our energy ripples throughout time. And our children are depending on us. as as each generation comes hoping that humanity will keep move forward and evolving. We're evolving. We're we hope we're evolving in a good way. Okay, well I had to post It I just had to because this has been coming to a head for a long time. And I know there's gonna be more coming out. And and and again that was the whole purpose of electing a new chief and counsel. That being said, have a good day and you know, just stay cool and if you can't stand the smoke out there, stay inside. Thank you.