Interconnectedness indigenous communities impact of the separatist movement

a story. Author Crane Guest anyway, what I was going to say is that Chief Sunshine is about the coolest cucumber in the parking lot. That guy is so calm. And you know what he is? He's a carpenter by profession. He's just a family guy, nothing fancy, handsome as hell. But he's a dad, he's a mushel, and drives his pickup truck, and he's a carpenter. He ain't no fancy Bellwig, you know, business commerce degree. Nothing none of That yeah, I think he just fucked with the wrong guy. You know, he's just a real down home solid years. And there's a few of them like that, Chiefs, you just don't hear about because they just they just work hard. They Author Crane don't you know, you don't see them mouthing off or whatever. They don't take that oil money thrown at them. Mm. They're hard working salt of the earth, you know. They're you shake their hands and you know that's a working man's hand. And yet I sit and have breakfast or lunch with them. And They're down to earth. That Coal Lake Chief's a young guy. I well, relatively young compared to the rest. He's I don't think he's more than forty five, maybe fifty, I don't think so though. Anyway, he's the representative for the National Child Care Committee. And he's a chief from Cold Lake. And he himself was in foster care. The most dirty, rotten story you could ever imagine that a child in in the system happened to him, and now he's a chief. Kelsey, that's his name. Kelsey, what's his last name? Jackal. J A C K O Jackal. Mm-hmm. Told me a story. I got a phone call from a lady I haven't even talked to s in since I came back from Las Vegas. Again too When I came back I should have bought tickets to go to Sioux Valley Powo. That was ⁓ eightieth anniversary because three months ago it would have been like a hundred and sixty dollars. But nope, I had to spend it on casino. But anyway, I was talking to the lady and she She know about the Globe and Mails article about the lawsuit with ⁓ lawyer Terry Bruan And ⁓ 'cause she was at the our band meeting when they had their first the new chief in counsel. And there, like my Aunt Regina and her daughter Jeannie, like they were they were attacking Lance. And, you know, Lance had to defend himself and the chief like Ellery got up and the question was like why did you let go of our the lawyer? He's been there I think twenty seven years, twenty five years. Get this. He's now working with the S Nakota, the Stonies. Okay, but I said, Well, now that shit has hit the fan, I prob they probably let him go. I said she says, No, I didn't hear about this story. I said, but we were talking and she says, but I do remember at the band meeting, she said how ⁓ they were ⁓ justifying the lit the release of this lawyer. And she said, I know that the chief and counsel had their lawyer there and they did consult him while the we were talking to like my aunt and her daughter, right? And ⁓ and of course there were like my cousin too worked with this lawyer too. But again too, like you know, you don't know people like personally, but it's just the whole the timeline of it. And you know, and even the emails that he sent to that Sam Mur Mureshi. Yeah. Like in even four months there was a period of four months that they hadn't even opened the contract, like the procurement process policies. They di they didn't follow them. And so here's the lawyer, you know, sending this letter off, let Sam know. Like this is open and then at the same time they signed it before it was it like it's just all like they've got all the paperwork. And I'm pretty sure that controller who had the twenty seven page document of all the monies, I'm pretty sure that leads into that too because I think there was thirty, thirty-one thousand or forty-one thousand. There was so much like it wasn't like a hundred thousand. But money was given sort of as an initiative to I don't know h how it was supposed to come into Tsuu Tina. But there's Enoch and Metis Nation, three of the recovery centers that are being built on top of the eleven in Alberta. And I was talk said to my friend, I said, you know, this this Daniel Smith and this ⁓ Sam Marishi, I said, and all these separatists, I said, they've been in cahoots with everything to dismantle all the hard work, like decades and decades of indigenous built up. I said, like closing Nechi Institute. And e and even having their hands in the native women's shelter in Calgary, like staffing it with separatist female, you know, board members. And again it's because the Alberta government is playing politics with non profit minorities against each other. So you have Africans coming into ⁓ Calgary buying for the same money as the native women's shelter, and the native women's shelter is getting the money because they have separate They have supporters of Danielle Smith on the board. And that's like I was on the board for like decades ago, I think over thirty years ago, when it first started, before they even built it on McLeod Trail. And all the policies and things like that, like for me I was assigning authority and I just didn't want to sign things that I didn't know where the money was coming from and plus that too, there was some mental health issues that I had with some of the board members. ⁓ like l like lateral violence. Misogyny towards me. Exactly. Now she's a basket case. So the reality is they whatever policies were in place to firmly establish indis indigenous women, like again, that's the plus in in terms of the foundation of it. They changed it. They changed it and they even changed the name of the native women's shelter. So there's this huge protest and that's when that lady ⁓ what's Nipinak? Josie Nipinak? Yeah, Josiah. Yeah, so all that all that had to do with this like this them the separatists or the Danielle Smith dismantling indigenous foundations that were built of by grassroots people. It's just to know that is really is repulsive. And again too you know, it's all with the consent of some indigenous people who, you know, they brown nose and throw little money towards them and then they bow and say, Okay, yes, Masta. You're white, so you know everything. Like it's just You know, incredible and I'm glad that Surgeon Lake and Tal Cree this this wrath fellow is ⁓ you know, be is his money is being withheld. And one of the lawyers, I don't know, in the article, this lady I was talking to, she says, Author , he lives up in Pretas or Bride Creek. And as the fry bread burns, I'm going, Damn 'cause like I shouldn't laugh because I know all this money has been siphoned like t like the news article is saying that Roy Whitney and his family would benefit. And of course You know, one of the band counselors had to deliver the letter to Roy and his house has security. Okay, twenty four seven security. His the daughter who passed away last month, she ha she has a house built right on his compound. They have a compound. like talk about you know rich that they have to have security. So somebody must have informed him that one of the band counselors was gonna deliver this letter. and when Roy got it, this is just like from one mouth to the next. He said, is this all that they got? Is this all that they're gonna do like just like it was no biggie? The guy is so used it's just he's just like Trump. He's a sad sack because he's so used to lying, he's even believing his own lies. There's nothing anybody can do, even if he's if he's prosecuted, he'll still say he's innocent. Paper trail doesn't lie though. Conflict of interest law, fraud, forgery, kickbacks, that doesn't lie. The paper trail will trail back to him and that's where Carrie Tate and these journalists. They've got some really good lawyers in Global Mail. Globe Mail and they got C B C's got some of the best lawyers. They wouldn't print that shit if they didn't have evidence. Yes. Yes. So the point the gun is already pointing to him. He can be as cocky, as disrespectful as he wants, but at the end of the day that's all gonna come out in a wash. Well that's I was listening to YouTube on the investigative reporters reporting the trial of Nathan Chasing Horse in Las Vegas. And the two d were discussing the lawyers and just like how the first case and how they really were nitpicking everything. So yes, it's like but the whole the whole drama of it is like you said, you know, the paper trail and these were like videos that that got him and you know like the proof is in the pudding. And even then when he when the judge is sentencing and he's saying he's not guilty and she says, but there's There's evidence there's the video and still he's in denial, like he's still there going no to br that's what I mean. The proof is in the pudding. Like Roy Whitney will be on co on trial. The paperwork will be all there and hit and he'll still deny it. Like that's what I'm saying. That's okay, I that's a form of psychosis. Like it said remember we talked about before about Donald. Trump and Daniel Smith and they think they're invincible. And I said, Well, it's beyond narcissism. There's a new form of psychosis that you know and the medical research has to be done. The separatist movement is behind all this crap. Where they talk about they blanketly, you know, Indian women are this. Indian chiefs are corrupt. You know, ⁓ billions of dollars is going to First Nations. Meanwhile, they're the fucking freeloaders. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, well is that we're not even shooting back. We're not even lighting like the you know the dynamite and throwing it back because it's so ridiculous. Well that's why when immigrants don't know all this and I'm saying no, people like Danielle Smith, we've you know, I've grown up my whole life around pretending white people who stab who stab me in the back. It's no biggie. But if you're an immigrant and you know you don't see it, you know, and you're looking at the native women's shelter, looking at win indigenous women, when the majority of the board on the for the women's shelter is white who you know are who are separatists. That's just my opinion. That's not only are they separatists, listen to this, they're all Americanized right wing fascist Pentecostal bastards. I could go on with the list. They're They're not even Canadians in their in their psych in their psychosis is I mean, they're more apt to shoot and ask questions later. Well that's why I use the analogy. I said, even though you grow up in a community with a neighbor your whole life, I said it's like anything in in war in civil wars and places where the state police knock on the door and say, Is so and so your neighbor home or is your neighbor so and so and they say yes. They said, Well we're gonna shoot in a firing squad and they'll go Go ahead. You know, like there's no love lost when it like again this psychosis that's happening because you know it's like every man for themselves. And for me, like I said, the this this whole issue of Nathan Chasing horse being sponsored by the chief and counsel for 20 years has been percolating. Has been percolating and you know, and then he everybody's going, well, we need a recovery center. I said, What the hell? You're painting. our girls as being so fucking suicidal that we need a recovery center for twenty four seven. And I'm going, what the hell? We already have Nechi Institute programs, healthy living programs run within our community and you took it away. Damn They're but they're being funded. They're being they're glad handlers. You know they're not even Yeah, they might have stopped drinking. But they're still fucking drunks. They behave like dry drunks. You know, that's why I asked you, it's Jeannie a drinker? 'Cause to me she behaves like she's drunk. Well that's why that's why when I talk about my own family I said, you know, there we there's no like nobody drinks. There there's no drug abuse. But yet look at what happened in terms of sexual crime. I said, even though even though that's not there in the equation, we're still suffering from this intergenerational trauma. And it and the how we think this like this dry drunk kind of mentality because it it's so it suppress it like it just like well do we give a damn like we suppress things so because we go I'm too much pain to be triggered by this. I don't wanna talk about it and then you're going well how are you going to heal if you don't talk about it? Listen here. You know, this has been percolating in the back of my mind you talk about things percolating over years. Billy Morgan is a chief. They still refer to him as chief. I disagree. He's not a chief. He went to work for how long? A couple of years, maybe more? For Daniel Smith. The day he got elected she got elected and appointed premier. He went to work for her. and been fucking sucking her tip for all that time. And then he got elected MP. He had to have known about the liaison with Satina. Billy Moore had to have known about the treatment center with Enoch. He had to have known they were gonna battle with Nechi Institute and battle Guest to push her out of that in the snowbank in the middle of a pandemic. I can't even be civil. I can't even walk up to him and say hi, good morning, Billy. I can't. I just walk up to I just walk right past him like I don't even know the asshole. I can't. Well even when ⁓ Roy sent my aunt. I said th he's like a stag and she's like a doe. You know, the stag will send the does out into the field before they go because they want to see if the coast is clear. She stands up in Edmonton and says, I have a letter from Chief Roy Whitney. Why? Because he's denying that he has any connection with Daniel Steele, Daniel Smith. You know, like what the hell? And she's reading it. Like she's getting this notoriety because she's a stand in for Chief Roy Whitney. What the hell's the matter with him? He's got no fucking backbone. My late dad used to say, you know, when people had no backbone, I couldn't understand. Now that I'm an elder and I look back and I'm going, it means he's ashamed to be indigenous. When you don't have a backbone, you're ashamed to be indigenous. And th that's just my opinion. You know, the fact that that my that all this was trying to cover up all what was percolating to make sure that the money flowed if he didn't get into council, at least that contract was signed by to Malika Holmes through that ⁓ Sam Mureshki. Marishki. Like that. That that's scandalous. And the fact that it's crook it's criminal. Just you know, and the fact that like s like somebody was saying, Well were you there? Did you sign it? Well, all those counselors who were there, like there were there were checks being like they said invoices, double invoices and you know, when some of the band counselors questioned it and said, I'm not signing You know, like the just the It's blacklisting other band counselors. When you're elected, the head chief is blacklisting band counselors. And then and they're trying to stand up and say, No, this is wrong. Now, the fact that he did you know, all this you know, even with the case of him the sexual assault case on two men like twenty, thirty years ago that has percolated to the top and his propensity for boys And that's why like for me I when I stopped being friends with this forensic psychologist because he said I he was I'm I was his therapist. Not to me. Okay, I'm just an indigenous woman. No, this this fellow who I'd been associated with for over thirty years only disclosed this to two female tribal police. And those police women are no longer working for the police. I just got assigned a special constable, female constable, to look after me twenty-four seven. And I asked, are all the Tsuu Tina elders getting special constables to, you know, to, you know, if you have an emergency? And they said yes. So I called another elder, I said, Are you getting a special constable? And she says, No. But it's good that you've got one. But I said, you know, this is really like for me, I don't feel comfortable with it, only because I know that this whole investigation was Nathan chasing horse. Yeah, it happened 20 years ago, but money was still given being given out for the rent and for the care of his followers by the former chief and counsel. And I know some of the women who ⁓ have major melt like health bills in in the states who who've applied to try and get reimbursed or to have their bills paid because they or the health insurance were wasn't covering them in the United States, they didn't get it paid but yet here's my niece who a follower of Nathan Chasing Horse had her medical bill $72,000 worth paid for by the chief and counsel. Everything that like whatever connection he had to supporting Nathan Chasing horse. That's why I said, you know, the fifth estate could have s added more, but because of the controversy that they had with Buffy St. Marie, they didn't they didn't report what they were hoping to report. And even then too, when you had the three chiefs, Roy, Sanford, and Lee. They approached them to see if they could comment and none of them did except Lee. Now why is that? Well because both of them because leadership would go to housing and threaten the manager's job if that a rental agreement wasn't paid. And all the travel expenses for Nathan's followers, like they weren't they weren't taken out of the pocket of Roy Whitney. They came out of our banned funds. So for me when I asked, could I get reimbursed for going to Las Vegas because they sponsored eleven people to go down a month before me, ⁓ it was refused. Yet I know those eleven people weren't gonna get any kind of like they didn't have to pay back that money. So again, you know, when people say, Well, why are you harpering on Nathan Chasing horse? No, i it's the it's the fallout. You know, the money trail, the manipulation of sucking money from the nation and throwing it to Nathan Chasing horse, who has that power but leadership? Yeah. Well I think all that'll come out. If Lance and them are doing their due diligence. Well, I had I had spoke with Zach and ⁓ he was the one who had got in contact with the Globe and Mail a couple of years ago. And so e even that too, like it's like I said, it's been percolating, but to actually have it's the lawsuit served like is monumental. And one of the descendants of Tsuutina Nation, like they're not on the ban list since some of these people are very bitter and very critical. They said, Well why wh why didn't the chief in council tell us? Okay, I'm going, Well, y your grandmother is a nation member but not you. Like the I'm pretty sure that the Chief in Council, from what I've heard talking with Lance, But it's all gonna come together. It's just like it has to be done incrementally because it's so huge. And to your credit and to the credit of Lance and Zachary and all the people, you know, I've been a victim. I've been a victim on the receiving end and the short end of the stick and so have you. You know, and all the Albertans and you and I have been effectively I mean directly impacted by this. And so have other people but they don't realize it. There's another c I think that's being investigated by the RCMP and that's those surgery suites. I'm not sure what they were calling them in the media. But they're you know, their Daniel Smith was ha handing out gifts, contracts, millions of dollars to build those suites on reserve. One of them went Enoch. For knee replacements and shit like that. So if you want to go for surgery, you know. This is the privatization of health care. So if you have the money you can go pay for it. Well that's why I mean these treatment centers. They say, they're gonna service two thousand people. I'm going, Well, they're not gonna service Tsuutina youth, so why did they put it out here? And why did they cut back services, money from the province that was already coming into Healthy Living for Youth programs? Yeah. See it and here, you know, there's a chief in counsel. we're helping our youth. Yeah, you signed that damn paper. That guy got he only did ten percent of the job, but he got fifty percent of that contract money before he was before the chief and the new counsel came in, they that lawyer and the powers that be wrote that check. It's just like Sturgeon Lake trying to get that fifteen million back. Like it's ridiculous what these separatists, these Puritans will call them or back a lack of a better word because you know, it's just like the whole new world you're coming into you want you're escaping you're escaping you're escaping persecution in England or the Europe and you're coming into the new world. Well, come on, people, you're all came into Alberta, you know, sort of like some sort of Persecution? I don't think so. So why aren't you making the best of it? Instead you want to what? Again, take more money out of the mouths of in d vulnerable women and children. That's why I say ever since they discovered oil and they'd started that those industrial schools, the one in Calgary, and in l and then in Parliament within twenty years, within ten years in Parliament, you know, it's written We if we educate these boys, they're gonna go back to the reserves and they're gonna marry ⁓ gr girls and they're gonna convert them back to savages. We that it's a waste of our money and time, so we have to educate we have to educate the girls too. So what do they do? They established Indian residential schools, all because they found oil. Shit. And then now Here's Trump feeding money into Daniel Smith. You have Putin and Russia feeding money into Alberta again for separatist movement. You have two opposing factions who are oil hungry. Because what? Alberta's the third largest oil producer in the world? And what and who's stopping it? First nations. First nations people. Yeah. No, years ago when my uncle passed away, I was I was in grief and I was, you know, just in grief and I remember seeing and thinking of Superman and how, you know, he had this big key and he'd fly this key into his fortress and churn it. Well when I when I somehow I just thought Alberta as the shape of a keyhole and that's the like creator was gonna put a keyhole pe put the key in Alberta and churn it. And look at look at what's happening. This is my uncle's been gone for decades. But but it's just the notion that you know the I don't know for me I tr in in the podcasts that I do write talk about I talk about the great mystery because a lot of these things have been predicted and have been manifested in so many indigenous people. Like you can't you can't just shut it off. And you know I mean even There's records in Brandon Residential School of them experimenting on the children for psychic abilities. And then when I talk to people about like con collective and coalistic approaches, especially when you're in a group where you trust everybody, that that that happens. I said it it's a natural, natural human process, but because of religiosity, everybody's looking at it as like they'll call it witchcraft or they'll call it something because they don't they're so ignorant They don't understand it because you know they just think what earth was only created two thousand years ago. You know, I mean talk about the naivety or the reality of like a poor education or just the greed, like using that as an excuse. Like you said, human beings can do whatever the hell they want as long as they're given permission. And when you have a religious doctrine giving that permission, they they'll they've taken it. They've taken it two. damn far. That what do they call that? ⁓ divine destiny or Yeah. Yeah, it's amazing all the connect interconnections that have to do with all the or indigenous organizations that have been well established by so many indigenous people who passed away, you know, who were survivors of residential school, who knew what it was like to live with trauma. That's their legacy that that this Danielle Smith is bastardizing. And the this wrath and even like putting this recovery center here. But you know, people have to realize and this is something you need to focus on, what made unique Nechi Institute unique is it was developed by our ancestors, our healers and our medicine people fifty plus years ago. And The reason being is they knew the rent residential school was gonna close. And they said we need to heal our people. Because at that time alcohol was the drug. This is in the early seventies, and they said they're gonna close the residential schools, but we need to deal with the intergenerational trauma. Well that's why I state in my podcast when I was a child everybody visited everybody. There were you didn't hear about violence or anything lateral and then all of a sudden alcohol came and everything all of a sudden the whole community became silent. That's right. Yeah, I like I I've seen that shift in my lifetime. Yeah. And then and then you know, I just it like I don't know, I I'm I ⁓ you know, there there's no magic wand to change everything. You know, ⁓ people pepo like I grew up seeing people pretending to be white, you know, if they had white ancestry or white blood. And I keep on saying my great grandmother had blue eyes, but she was a Dakota matriarch, spoke the language, taught her children the language, ran away, away from the cavalry. You know, if they caught her, they would have executed her too, just like they did all the other relatives. I said there was no distinction. I said, but here and now because of because of being ashamed You know, ca all like my grandfather said, they didn't start putting up fences until nineteen fifty two. They didn't start putting up what? Boundary fences around Tsuutina until seventy four years ago. See at some point Author and this is what we need the bridge we need to cross I need to cross is where does Nechi Institute fit in in this big picture? I have to do my version of Nechi Institute victimhood and how our how these assholes, these fascist pancake lovers our have taken our culture and cherry pick what they want and get their token elders and their token chiefs like Billy Moore and you know, And Ro and Roy Whitney. And Roy Whitney, yeah. See, and that's the whole thing too, is like I had Nechi Institute training. I had all this training. Even my mum and my dad, like in terms of traditional ways of thinking. 'Cause people say, Well, how did you know what Nathan Chasing horse was all about? Because of that, Absolutely. Do you think do you think Nathan Chasing horse would have thrived in a community where the majority of people had Nechi Institute training? Mm-hmm. It'd be blown out of the water. That's what that's what makes it so tragic. That that all the things that we built up, like my mother and my father, my grandparents, that this woman, you know, this savior we'll call her the Madonna that she wishes she was a born again virgin, what the hell? Like really, how dangerous is she? Who is that? Daniel Smith ⁓ Daniel Smith old dog Pancake Princess Pancake Princess Fuck you and your I almost died laughing. I thought this was a fucking joke. I went outside to have a smoke and I couldn't believe it. I couldn't stop laughing. I was just out of control. Then I realized it was at the K Day's pancake breakfast. And I just finished saying about a week or two ago, because we couldn't go to Calgary. We know we were broke as a joke, and we just finished moving my household, my daughter's household, my granddaughter's household. And then we're flat broke. We couldn't even go to a pre free breakfast or visit any of our friends. Anyway, long story short, I said, Daniel Smith better not show up to any of these K-Day pancake thingies. Exactly those words. Guess I guess she there she is. Because Edmonton is different from Calgary. Like we don't put on a show. Everybody wear a cowboy hat, put little shit on your boots. No. No. Our people here are blue collar, salt of the earth. We don't try to be corporate American cowboys. You know? Or fall in fall in love with the Wild West The Wild West show. And then you know, w the only thing I watched on television, I used to watch the Chucks. Well, I don't watch that anymore because for me it's so painful because my brother used to run trucks and so we all got involved. it's a whole family thing. And so I'm so grieving over my brother who died recently. And then I'm thinking, I don't winna watch that. That just brings back too many memories and I wanna sit here and cry. Well then I got watching the ponies. Yes. The wild ponies and then I got excited and I think this is Wonderful. And all they got those boys was twenty-five thousand dollar check. And those fucking bull riders and everybody else bear back, they all got a hundred grand. Yes. With a big, big bronze. How come our boys didn't get a big bronze? because Embridge, the sponsor of the Calgary Stampede, you know, sponsored the competitive powwow for two days. Also they sponsor the Indian village. So like they sort of think, Well, you know, we put in so much money. Yet they don't realize that. That they they're if it wasn't for Indians they wouldn't have no fucking company. Exactly. 'Cause they're sucking our resources. They're sucking the tit of Mother Earth. Exactly. And they're treating us like show dogs. Yeah, my white friend she says, Yeah, I s when we ask for oil money They'll just and they say, ⁓ we just throw money to the indigenous people. If they're squawking and fighting amongst each other, we just throw them money. She says, Author , I've heard that in those meetings. I said, Well, of course. I said, they don't give a shit. As long as they get money to pay their mortgage, their taxes, you know, and whoever's working for them. They don't care who they put under the bus. They don't. And you know, they don't care if somebody's starving. They don't care if we don't have any sovereignty over our children. They don't care if our children are being trafficked at the age of fourteen. They don't give a damn that murdered you know, there's so many murdered and missing indigenous women and girls. Shit. And yet what the hell? Talk about fucking white privilege and matriarchy. I said, you gotta be you have to live and be born in it and every day face the you know, like the s in the injustice of it. I said, because if you haven't breathed it in and experienced it and be angry, like I am so like people are so angry, like of all this money just for this is just one that that that tr that center. That money that was taken and spent without like the process, without it even being challenged. Like that's in I think too there was also some something to do with the ring road and just so many things that that Roy had his fingers in. And you know, I like for me I I've grown up here I you know, they can s people can say whatever the hell they want to say about me. I know throughout my life and since I was in my twenties, any time there was some big controversy and somebody says, somebody wrote a nasty letter to Chief and Counsel, Author , they said it's you. Every excuse to defame my character, to you know, suppress my voice, like the only thing only option I had was to start writing a blog. Because I put it out just like in science fiction, I put it out in cyberspace, hoping that Superman or the Fantastic Four somebody would see it. Yeah. Like talk about delusional. But anyway, it worked. It damn well worked. Exactly. You know, and you know, bless people who have a voice. And you know, just you know, I just you know, it just it just makes me upset. And I know I know when I talk to people about this lawsuit, I know they're upset as well. But you know, like at what point at what point is there consultation? I know as the everything starts unraveling, I know the chief and counselor are gonna have to approach the elders and the and again, you know, I I've said to other elders I would say pro prosecute them, you know, charge them. Yes, they're gonna come back and live in Tsuutina, but restorative and transformative justice needs to be done and they have to be held accountable for that for the community to understand these are our sovereign rights to protect our most vulnerable. That's why I said, What the hell did they do paying the rent for these fourteen, fifteen year olds? You know, if You know, if they were rich or you know, had moved away from that cult and they came back and they sued the chief and counsel for not protecting them. That's the mantle that they take on when you swear on that you're gonna r you know, be a an elected official. You know, in a traditional sense, but it isn't traditional because they fail to they fail to protect the women and children. Well, it's a breach of oath. It's treasonous. 'Cause in every oath that I've seen, unless yours is different, which I doubt, there are protocols. Whether or not they recognize it or they're put in place, it doesn't matter. They have a sacred responsibility. And that's to look after all our beautiful girls and boys. You know? Like my mother used to say, I used to think she was so like gross. You can't trust they'll stick their dink in everywhere, it doesn't belong. don't worry about that one over there. You can't trust that one because you can't t trust them with a package of donuts, my mother used to tell me. And ⁓ gross mother. Like I'm ten, twelve years old and I'm being schooled on human sexuality and deviance. But prior to that I already I knew all that stuff from my great grandma in Cree. And I used to think, why is that you know, I ask questions like why is so and so always drunk? That couple over there, I see them walking down the road. This is in the fifties before our people were even allowed to drink. Then they'd be passed out and, you know, fighting in public and people would be scared they're gonna show up at a funeral or at a wedding. And it'd be just the only the only two. Always, always disruptive. And then later on I realized that generation of men and how they were sexually molested in boarding school as little boys. Yeah. As I started to work, you know, I was already in my teens when I realized that. My grandpa John taught me all that. those ugly you know, colonizers had their way with the women, the men. Well even too even too when our men and women go into prison. You know I have my friend whose sons come out of jail and they just start drinking and I said, You don't know what they've lived with in that prison. That's right. And there's no way to protect yourself? Yes. That's why when I when I talk about like restorative and transformative justice, I'm talking about the whole a concept of human sexuality. It's you know, ⁓ you can't like people don't want to talk about it. I'm going, No, you have to. Because the underbelly of all of the analysis of all the work and that we're doing and bringing forth all of these injustices. Yes, it looks financial. Yes, it looks like embezzlement. and doc you know, doctoring documents and making lawyers rich, you know, and then finding out your pre ⁓ your chief is on front page news for you know his violation towards men. Yes. Grown ass men. That's and then you know Well that's why that's why when I went to Las Vegas and I was talking to the followers. They said we didn't know we were drinking the Kool-Aid And they started talking about like his you know, even his sexual preference to two spirited teenagers. And then and then I thought about our chief and his propensity for boys. And I thought, you know, like how deviant. Like what was going on between like whatever was happening between, you know, like rituals and ceremonies that that he became so Dedicated to supporting this man and his followers. You know, because that forensic psychologist who'd been his therapist had said to the two tribal p female policemen, he sa he says he has a propensity for boys. Now what the hell? And then he even said he he'd even say, you know, I don't like this chief because of him Nathan Tracyhorse has thrived in Tsuutina. Again, what the hell was happening in those therapy sessions? That he that, you know, that these things he you know, he's bringing up to these two female constables. Now get this, our chief of police and his partner, who's also a policewoman, have a house up here in Pritus, like and a again, you know, right next to Roy Chief Roy Whitney. So, you know, it makes me wonder why I got a special constable female to call. And again, where did those two women go? 'Cause this this person, this forensic psychologist, star I heard them. They were in my living room right here. And he's and he says ⁓ they started he star they started talking about certain people they all knew in terms of like human trafficking and things like that and I and so, you know, that he felt at ease talking with them i in front of me. But yet but yet for me it was it was all a show because If he had any gumption he would have dealt with it rather than trying to get notoriety for knowing like the nitty gritty of ⁓ Chief Whitney. You know, 'cause he never met he never met Nathan Chasinghorse at all, so that only led me to believe like, you know, what is what is it that he wants to become famous for? Which really sickened me. Still sickens me. Well, what business is that psychologists have in disclosing confidential patient information to the cops? So he could see again too, he knew that the fifth estate was going to interview me. So you want to make it he wanted to make it public like that because the police were also being interviewed by the Fifth Estate. Like I'm pretty sure if the fifth estate hadn't decided to do a story, he would have he would have kept quiet. Wouldn't have told t wouldn't have said anything in front of me. Yeah. See even see I was in therapy too and even when my therapist found out that the fifth estate was gonna interview me, she set up four counseling sessions in one month four. That's one a week. Did I ask her for that? And I just thought this is really s like this is really like this is too much. Again, this woman made her money off of listening to the survivors over three hundred three hundred witnesses of Indian residential school that she sat in to listen to their statements. That's why I I'm really weary of mental health workers. That's why for me, ⁓ like Nechi Institute and just indigenous people helping indigenous people is vital to healing. And they're and they're taking that away. They took it away. And you know, and because of what? You know, this this woman pretending to be an ally, this woman, you know, kissing the very ground of indigenous men who other women from their communities wouldn't even touch them. Yeah. really. You know, as indigenous women we have taste. No, it's disgusting. They are disgusting because Yeah. Very disgusting. Yeah. So next week's our powwow. of course if it's gonna be this smoky like this, I'm not gonna be able to go. It's too much. I'm not going anywhere. Staying in it nowhere. Like this is nothing. You should hear in Toronto, Ontario. My friend. It hasn't even warmed up. It's only July. In Ontario there's two hundred fires burning right now. Like the whole town of Hamilton, Ontario is just covered in soot. Smoke. Like horrible. Well they say they have three data centers in northern in northern Ontario. They want to have a data center in northern Alberta and I'm going, look at what the tar sands have done to all the northern trees. The whole northern section is all brittle because of the tar sands. And now they want to put data centers, drain more groundwater, make all the trees brittle again. Like wake up. And then and then you have the audacity of these American senators saying, they then they're gonna build a pipeline now. to take the contracts At the expense of at the expense of women and children. The most vulnerable. And they think, well, we'll get these contracts. Show me the money. Shit. I'm seventy four years old. Ever since I was fifteen. It's like, show me the money. Where is it? Show me the money. It comes at a damn price. It comes at a damn price. And I sure as hell I'm not going to pay that price. Like I said, when I was director of education I was, you know, ⁓ tempted with an offer so that I you know, instead of being fired, I'd be transferred. You know, with, you know, like better pay, less stress. But it but it would have come at a point where I would have had to have said yes to Roy Whitney. Like he came right to my office and offered that to me. And I said no. And all the other people who were on boards and, you know, s siphoning money, I said no. Like I like until board members who are who are indigenous have actually, you know, lived in another country, have you know, paid their mortgage or rent or whatever, just, you know, by working, then they can say, you know, what how hard it is to work as a board member. Even like I sat in as a as a non profit ⁓ board chairperson. And the work I did and the rest of the board just, you know, unless you have somebody who's actually working, then the b board's not gonna survive. And that's just the reality of boards, but that's the reality of First Nations. Unless you have people who are actually going to work, do their due diligence, you know, and take that take that criticism, you know, the threats of being sued or somehow trying to keep you your quiet you quiet. You know, you have to you have to you have to ⁓ have the courage to say something. Like my father, like my late father, you have to have a backbone. You know, that backbone means that backbone means a hell of a lot. Like you said, all the ancestors that created Nechi Institute, all that insight and wisdom they had. And yet and yet nobody is looking at it. And yet they fucking well say, I'm a traditional I'm a traditional thinker. Bullshit. Bullshit to you. You don't know what you don't know what you're doing to hurting our own people. Yeah. That's why I said even the native woman's shelter. Like even that, like that was supposed to be for indigenous women like from the s the tribes of the Treaty Seven area. But they do that in Edmonton too. The white people and all these pretendians, they take over all the not for profits. Yeah. Wow. See for me, ⁓ like they invite me and I talk, they pay me an honorarium and I and I've said to them, You need to really do more recruiting of indigenous elders 'cause there's I think there's forty thousand in the city. I said there's gotta be more indigenous elders out there that you can have on these committees or like organize those elders. But no, they have a select few. It's always that Reggie and Rosemary, ⁓ Yeah. How did they make their way in there? I think it's just the practices of what they do on a daily basis. Like how'd I put it? Who do you know that ⁓ the city of Edmonton uses? what's his name? Whiskey Jack. The university uses him, the city Alberta Francis Whiskey Jack. And his wife Mariel. Yeah, so the so they usually have a couple. So that way it's like you know, like, like look they're a happy couple. So it's not a like there's certain like again, the what standards are they trying to emulate? And again, I remember when Ralph Steiner when he became Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, His granddaughter was my second cousin. We went to the ⁓ they were at the hotel, they were going to a banquet. So we went upstairs to his room and they were he was getting ready and he was talking to everybody in the room and they he said to my cousin, his granddaughter, he says he says, You know, I wonder why white government you know, appointed me this. Like what ammo what makes me so special to, you know, receive this honor? You know, and he was talking to her, trying to, you know, say, you know, we've got to look at these things. Why do they do these things? What is their purpose behind it? And it and that's why like when I look at people who get these honorary degrees, I'm going, What purpose does it does it hold? What is it serving? See and you know, and just until Daniel Smith came in, did they serve a lot of honorary degrees? No, they didn't. And again too, by having these honorary degrees, it's taking away the money from the non profits or from the grassroots people who actually do the grunt work, the actual work, like yourself and my late mother and you know and thousands of other indigenous people to work on the front lines. They're saying, well we've chosen a select few. I'm going yeah, at the expense of taking away the funding for those projects that the grassroots people wanted in the first place and established. You know, we're not perfect. I'm not far from it. But the reality of it is like You know, it's just like you know, you y people have depending on people to support and to help people guide people. And it's not just an individual, it's a group of people that are being guided and then you take that away. That's why, you know, like I when I think about this recovery center and I just like I said, all the all the things that we try to face like all those people who sobered up trying to face like the abuse they created, the time they've served in prison for the abuse they've created, and then for them to live in our communities. You know, like all these things It's not easy. put Danielle Smith in in there. She wouldn't l like I always say that about white feminists. They sure like to talk. I said, well, come on. Live a year in my community. In any indigenous community. It's one thing to talk, but it's another thing to actually do it. That's true. That is very true. Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know how things are gonna work out, but I know I know it makes me angry. and yeah, you know, it's I have ⁓ acquaintances who say, well Maureen, I wouldn't spend the time a day to even go and see Nathan Chasing Horse being sentenced. And all the money I put out to do that is nothing. Nothing compared to like all his victims. That poor that poor man who lost his son because Nath Nathan said he was gonna cure him of cancer. Mm-hmm. You know, and I say I say to like even my niece, you know, she sh you know, sh the followers say, Yeah, we n we know she was hog tied and gang raped by his followers. But the word with the f her friends and these are her friends in Nevada, even though she's living here in Tsuutina now. Says she won't press charges. And I said, I said, yes, that's the point. I said, even like she had disclosed this. And yet one of the ladies that has a podcast that I called up and I said, Could you interview me? Nathan Chasing horse has been arrested. She didn't know me. She did a lot of advocacy for the Native Women's Shelter. She said, okay. And she puts it on Facebook, and so my niece saw it. And she sent her an email and said, why are you going to interview my auntie? And she told her not to interview me. And this was like this was like bef during the whole time that the tribal police were interviewing her too, and her disclosing, yeah, she had been sexually assaulted by Nathan's followers. And even the my contact with the tribal police said, she's not following him anymore. And I said, Well then why is she contacting the lady who I'm doing the podcast on? Why is she demanding that ⁓ that she not published my the podcast? I said, This isn't just one time. I said, twice within three or four months, I said, My niece has confronted this woman and saying, Don't interview my aunt. I said, She's still following him, even though she claims she's been sexually assaulted. Like there's some sort of ⁓ what I don't know, in psychology they call it ⁓ like you say, psychosis, there's also this disassociation or multiple personalities or something where you know, people have gone through so much that they still don't want to believe the unbelievable. Like the one man, you know, he divorced his wife, he's working, he's not educated, he's working, he bought a house, a mortgage. So that Nathan Chasinghorse's parents could live in there. Like these are still followers of him. And so how many like just like sleep sleeper cells, how many of these young people are so out of touch with their traditional roots, their home communities, that they have to gravitate to some fallacy, some illusion, some myth mythology that they create and create a cult of it. When they can ⁓ when they cannot damn well go back to their home communities, their home reservations, Inuit Metis or First Nations communities and live there. That's why I say, you know, it's all it's just like a feminist or any pretendian. You know, they if they're like even that's why I say some have status cards and never lived in in community. And yet, you know, like if they did, I'm pretty like I always say Why didn't people look and see why you know why wasn't he ha why didn't he have a bunch of followers from the reservation he came from? Come on, people, smart enough. Look at look at where he was born and raised. Why did he run away? Why did he run away to make his you know what whatever money he could make? So, you know, as much as people want to think that like it's not significant, it is It's it is significant because it's a reflection on how desperate we are to hold on to our culture and our identity. But it but it's how and when and how to use it in a an appropriate way. That's why like I like when I'm talking with you about Nechi Institute and just the groundwork of it, the whole fact is like where in the hell of all North America has there been such a program? You know, we really need to, you know, have a voice about it because damn it, we're not stupid. We're not ignorant. We didn't lose our culture. It's embedded in the Nechi Institute for time and prosperity. It's not like yeah, there's all these people who talked about their experience and they want to what? Destroy those records in twenty seven? Like I'm saying, you know, th this this whole d What you call Indian resc residential school industrial school denialism? No again, they're trying to erase our oral history? Like ten, twenty thousand years they're still trying to erase it. Like how stupid court decision and it was a directive from the Supreme Court when it went to court. And again, it's all the men that were in charge of that whole fucking thing. The bureaucratic mess that they've created. Like who gave Philfontaine the authority to go ahead and settle for ten thousand fucking dollars? Nobody. He never sought the s the you know he didn't he didn't seek free prior and informed consent. He fucking breached it, he sold us out. That's why all these shit is happening to him now. yeah, okay, then then he's not been found guilty. But it still hangs over his ugly head. Him and his wife could afford to buy land in a big giant house west of Calgary towards Banks. They s they sit comfortably with all the millions of dollars that they made. Him and his Kathleen Lawyer. No different from Wrath. And I think he th they should be investigated too. And how they went into cahoots. Fucking bitch Kathleen Lawyer, I can't stand her. Sleeping with the enemy. Well, she was my mum's lawyer. She really, you know, put her clinches or claws into Calgary. I think this is before she even hooked up with Voltifontaine. Or she was probably in the back room while o again percolating to the top as the fry bread burns. Yeah. Yep. That's right. Shit. Morality. Did you hear about that center to the one that died? He's seventy one years old. ⁓ what the hell is it? He was seventy one, he died last week. Yeah, okay. The one in the US? Yeah, and so all these ⁓ sexual c encounters that he paid off to men. Like a sexual what? Sorry. You know how y like you said, some of the some of these legal these legal ⁓ have been paid off, like they've been given money. What did you ⁓ settling sett settling out of court? Yes. So he did that. But now that he's dead, th it's okay for them to talk and show and say. Like it's a ma like I'm just going, jeez. That's why I say, you know, all these politicians who've settled out of court, like even ⁓ our my neighbor here, Emmett, I hear he's moved to Arizona because he settled out of court with the victim. yes. As the fry bread burns. It really burns. Yes. And there's also implication too with money again being siphoned into his company. Understand this, you know, you got a trucking company. If you're in cahoots with the head chief, he gives you contracts. Shit. Damn it anyway. And that's ⁓ Regina's nephew? no, that's ⁓ she's not r ⁓ not through marriage, no. Distant though. Distant. Yeah. They were on council together. yes, yes, of course. Yes, on council. Brother and sister or nephew and auntie, adoption type of thing. But it's amazing that when people die, that all the shit, you know, it can be revealed because who you know, there's no law about it now. And then and then my white friend and her f her friend w I had a stampede breakfast with them. And they were talking about these Republican conferences they have in the United States. And of course I'm so naive. Like I didn't even know of that you could freely access porn until the pandemic, because I was talking to my white friends about sexually transmitted diseases in old folks' homes. And so I so I found out, my goodness, you mean it's legal? You can actually surf the web and find porn. Did not know that. But see, again, this is I'm being educated by one white women. So I'm at the Stampede Breakfast and she said, Yeah, when they have these Republican conferences, the app grinder shuts down. And I said, What do you mean grinder? Do you know do you know the software grinder? Do you know what it is? Like I didn't know. This is what, nineteen hours ago. I have to read this to you. I know you're busy. Regina Crowchild this is Lance Many Wounds. Okay, nineteen hours ago. Regina Crowchild and Jeannie Gro Crowchild, let's continue the conversation here. Jeannie, s you seem to s to know so much about the litigation. Please free to position accordingly. Defamation and slander are real offenses, so please enlighten me on offenses that I am apparently guilty of. What Indian country needs is transparency and accountability. And I will share anything you accuse me of. You must be better if you if we want better. We must be better if we want better. And Ad Jeannie Crowchild, did you file your conflict of interest paperwork for this term? And so Lance Many Wounds again. Weird. Regina Crowchild Jean and Crowchild, let's have this discussion in the open so people can see. I'm still a volunteer and I work for a dollar a month. I only think about my grandkids in seven generations. Regina, we both agreed on transparency, so let's share what's been going on. At our last band meeting, you called out myself and the casino board on renovation saying that they and I were causing catastrophic harm to the casino when truth was that the board tasked me to get to get the renovation on the rails. Somehow we've ⁓ we bit out the casino with four pieces of papers a hundred million dollars and thought it would just work out Regina you've been in council for a very long time on Tsuutina. your transparency. Where did you spend my kids' money and my grandkids' money? Please explain how you allocated resources to the casino and the nation in general. Did you support not removing Roy as when he was charged? Can you explain why? Agreed guilty until proven innocent, but please explain your rationale. P.S. to all family associated with Regina and Jeanie. I support you. I apologize. This is playing out publicly, but part of cleaning things up is calling out the nonsense that's happened. Tsuutina is a mess. But we are cleaning it up so we can support our members. the Chief Starlight and his office will work with anyone to move the nation forward. So Then eight minutes ago, Lance Manywounds posted Regina Crowchild and Jeannie Crowchild, where are you both at? Let's have this conversation in the open, not in the shadows. I've worked my ass off to accumulate the skill sets I have, and it hasn't been easy, and I'm building after a catastrophic investment I made into someone in 2021, and it cost me literally 20 million plus. And thank God I have patient investors because they got caught in it as well. I'm responsible for a lot of other people's money and I don't take that lightly. It's the hardest thing which both you will and understand is you you're not in the fight. Regina, you're supposed to be a fiduciary, but you flat out failed. You just spend the nation's money to go talk about treaty. Tell what you did to a Tell what you did what did you accomplish. Let me tell you something about treaty. You need a war chest of money to fight, an entire law firm of lawyers to fight because you're literally fighting one of the oldest monarchies in the world and going up against a country with hundreds of billions and resources. If I hear about you slandering me again, you'll be talking to my lawyers next. One of the chiefs who slandered. Me too is willing to sign an affidavit for your information. This is your one and only warning. That was five eleven minutes ago. As the fry bread burns. Yep. The Crow Child posted five hours ago. I for one would like to know what the hell is going on. This treatment center, this health center, and the counselor's taking leave with pay. How the hell does that happen? I mean, they get money waved at them all of a sudden. It's where did I where do I sign? And the thought of the nation's well-being and generations' future fucking goes out the window. Yeah, counsel should carry some shame. If you're being called out, then there must be a damn good reason. And we need to know. Those of you who barely get by making ends meet. And some of us happen some of us homeless. We deserve to know. is what is happening to our for our nation. I for one I'm sure we feel like, well, there's the decision makers, it's on them if they fuck up. And it's not, ⁓ look, they actually did and we're broke again. But don't you get mad, that's a paid position. X A K U G A, that's a chief, I guess. Yeah, yeah, it's the name for the chief. Yeah. A pay ⁓ paid get the non status call it, public position. Keyword public. Tsuutina counselor means we get to know what's going on. So don't start fighting back. Just admit there's something wrong go going. Wrongdoing and see how we can fix it. When the swearing in of a chief and counsel is going on, it should be amended to include I swear I will not sign away our rights and I will swear to never take bribes. I swear to give all monies made to the people of Tsuutina. I just threw that last one in there because I want to go to the casino. Thank Lance many wounds. You know there's a lot of warriors, good warriors out there and Lance is one making sure there's accountability. So Lance Many Wounds comes back three hours ago. He says, Wanda Crowchild, thank you. It's been hard because the nonsense and lies that get spewed out are egregious. Weird are just trying to make things better, but we're handed a complete disaster from the last leadership. Who Regina Crowchild was a part of? We all were a You all were a few steps from getting third-partied. What happened is the unacceptable and it needs to be told. They lied to all of us. Yeah, it's so bad. Lance many wounds, says Wanda Crowchild. Regina Crowchild, you need to chime in. Please enlighten us on what actually came from the h hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of nation dollars spent for your travel all over all over the years going around talking about treaty. Jeanie Crowchild, what did you accomplish at AFN? Jean now better just fucking get herself a lawyer. It sounds like it and the same with Jeannie. Yeah. And the more Jeannie mops off, the worse it's gonna get. Well again she's gonna she's like Roy Whitney. She really believes she's innocent, that her hands are clean. Well Jeannie works for her mum. It's quite obvious she answers to her every beckon call. She thinks that she's a rock star. She's living in an illusion or an illusion. Again, when people aren't in the real world, aren't balanced, this is my own philosophy and my own opinion, is that is that sometimes, like, I always picture that Christian, you know, Adam and Eve and the tree and the serpent and the tree and those trees like her apples. I o it's like if you're if you're not balanced it's like all of a sudden somebody's gonna shake that tree and all the apples are gonna fall down. You know, and you know when she's saying, I'm we're contributing, well, no you're not because if you were contributing the apples would still be on the tree and everybody would get to eat those apples. You know, trauma's the fact is they've been in there too freaking long. Same thing happened with us in Samson, I ain't judging. It's ⁓ it's ⁓ the way it is. They normalize this you know, corruption. Well, like it like it like even with human trafficking. You know, people you know, s get their daughters, fourteen, fifteen year olds who get pregnant and they marry them off right away or they're so poor that they can't look after their daughter, so they marry them off. even like okay, you get transferred out, you y well, you're another community's responsibility, not ours. And yet and yet the men keep on marrying women who come into the communities. Like that Indian Act like really hurt women. Really hurt women and made us div di made us attack one another. I just ⁓ like my friend said Author she says I wish you know like ⁓ my in my life I'd like to see young women not be so vicious to other young women th this patriarchy and I and I s you know, like that's the reality of it. And I said, well, for me as an elder and knowing the women that I've grown up with, and h seeing younger women, like I'm seeing a transition. But I think there's needs to be more education done. And it it's too bad because like Nechi Institute could have been instrumental in doing some sort of curriculum on, you know, young adolescent girls. We did that work. ⁓ okay. I did work in child welfare developing curriculum on kids aging out population on a youth training schools but they just shut us out. and see and that's w it's like reinventing the damn wheel again because they give money to the University of Calgary. for their indigenous program and what do they do? They PhD these people out. You know, again without a actually having any resources, like say re referencing Nechi Institute. It's and again, who who's getting the laureates, these, you know, white academics or these people who have, you know, can say, I've got I'm I've got indigenous blood even if they don't have a status card, they still say I have indigenous blood and I'm going, have you lived and have you lived in Inuit First Nations or Metis communities? If you haven't then don't even don't you have don't have a you don't have a pot to piss in. So get out of the get out of the stew. Get out of this You know what we're cooking up 'cause you don't know where it begins and where it ends. You're just try they're just trying to get like you can't take it with you, like Buffy Saint Marie. Shit. She can't take all the credit of whatever the hell she thinks she created or in her delusional mind. No, that's the epitome. And Alvin Manitopia is sick enough for her. Well, like I said, there's so many people too l still h picking up for Nathan Chasing Horse. And even back in the day he Elvin contacted me. I saw Nathan at the Elbow River Casino. What should I do? Call the police. no, I'm not gonna turn in a brother. What the fuck? Why call me in the first place then? He actually said that? Yeah. just a fucking gossip queen, that's all he is. Like you know, I've gone through all that with people. You know, and it's heartbreaking that, you know, I like I had one to go down to the j the jury and then I managed to go down to the sentencing. But even, you know, people thinking, well Author , y you know, what you're doing is admirable but when you know, when it came to it, I only one person came out and helped me. And you know, and I'm grateful. I'm truly grateful for that. and because of that I I've it's empowered me to do more podcasts and, you know, really talk about how important it is for indigenous women to talk about their s their lives. 'Cause it means something. One of the chiefs actually came up to me and when I was sitting in the in the big room with the chiefs. I'm sitting at the front row because, you know, I'm hard of hearing most of the time and I get easily distracted by you know my attention deficit disorder kicks in when I get Trying to be analytical over there and looking at this one over there. What the hell is he doing here? And then I'm going back again to what's going on in the podium. You know what I'm saying? Mm-hmm. So I get distracted. Anyway, the chief comes up to me and he said, You know, Guest, I heard you speak t ⁓ last night and it really moved me what you said. Because I talked about poverty and about us women and children, our children being defenseless, trying to go to school and or being bombarded with all this racist racism. And I said The big problem is we fifty percent of our population is not engaged. That's the women. We don't have a voice. Like I can't go to this meeting tomorrow and stand up and speak. It's only for chiefs. And the majority of the chiefs are men. They've never experienced our way of looking at life. yeah, they call us life givers, they call us, you know, but at the end of the day our opinion doesn't matter. It's very you know, the matriarchy is ignored. I'm not saying that I need to be back in in the limelight or I need to no. Our women need training. They need to know, they need to go back to the basics, be homemakers again. be the artists, to be the doctors, to be the lawyers, to, you know, take control of their children and their households. Like bake Bannock. Don't go standing in line at the Tim Hortons every fucking day. You know? Ch cook a big home cooked meal for your kids. Something, you know, like back to the basics. And Anyway, he said i he said I really appreciate what you had to say, he said because I hear you and I you know he said, I just wish that I could do more to help you. And then w he started talking like that and then we got distracted. one of the chiefs went up and spoke and I s and he's I knew he was gonna break down and start crying when we talked because we he was making an intervention on a residential school denialism and he was sexually abused. as a child and he in fact has been charged as an adult many years ago and has done work in this area all his life. So excuse me, I said I have to I have to go support my friend. So I got up and you won't believe this, about ten people got up the same time as I did and we once stood behind that chief that spoke. So I never was able to go back and pick it up. But I could tell that it was really troubling for him. Like he's trying to find solutions. He's trying to find methods by which he knows things are not going well. He can see that his you know, his community is suffering and this and that. But they don't they don't know how to engage us. They don't. So as a result they just keep going to meetings, keep going to meetings. So you know, it makes me realize that We need to get organized. But we can't do it relying on other organizations and Indian affair and you know, I mean, we could probably get money later on, but Daniel Smith is sure is no longer organize us. Well, like this weekend the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation Wachi, the powwow, eighty years. So I was like six years old, w I was six years old and they'd already been, you know, celebrating every year for six years by the time I was born. And I think in ⁓ my grandmother, Daisy DeWan Crowch Crane Crowchild ⁓ she did a lot of volunteer work what like with the Anglican Church doing the rummage sales, you know, selling ⁓ get getting ha secondhand clothes and selling them, refurbishing them, making money. And because she was Dakota Sioux and my mom was Dakota Sioux as well, she took that she took that auxiliary money and she rented a tent, like a like a like a big top, but it was only like I think ten feet by six feet. It was a long rectangular. And she had ⁓ people put it up by our old community hall. That was our first Indian days. That's how it started with my grandmother's bake sale, rummage sale monies. Was that in Tsuutina? Yeah, at Tsuutina. That was the woman's auxiliary that did that. What year was that? Do you remember? I was twelve, so let's see. Twelve. I'm seventy-four now. ⁓ Sixty two years ago. Yeah, okay. So sixty two years ago That's in nineteen sixty four. So a lot of people wanna, you know, claim that, well, so and so was on chief and so and so was on council, but it was the women who fundraised the money. Like I said, you know Well that's what I told our chief when I spoke that night before. I said, you know, we're the ones you go to any ban office in this country, it's the women that are running the show. We're the backbone of the community. We know what goes on. We live it. We we're lawyers, we're accountants, we're band managers, we're HR directors, social workers, educators, teachers. We're the ones I said that run the show. But we're not at the tables. Yep. And I think I really shook him up. Well see In sixty four, like sixty two, sixty three, sixty four, sixty five, that's when alcohol w like I said, the alcohol was coming in and it was just all of a sudden the community went silent. So that that you know, that the women coming together and making money? Like, you know, I don't know if it was jealousy, men being jealous of other men's wives, I don't know. Or just the fact that they were beating up their wives and didn't want anybody to know. Who the hell knows? I agree. Like my friend like my friend in Long Plains, you know, her I've known her since she was fifteen. You know, works with as the band has worked in administration her entire life. My cousin, you know, she's, you know, sixty-five, director of education. Not education, director of health. Just you know, just women. Yourself, like all like I said, it's it's the backbone. And yet because of patriarchy and colonial ways of thinking, you know, it it's like ⁓ we don't women aren't thinking, women can't think. And yet and yet who looks after their adult children and who looks after their grandchildren, even and even their adult grandchildren? It's women. That's why I said, you know, you can say matriarchy and all this stuff. I No, you're gonna be born and you have to live in it. You know, you're not you're not ⁓ obeying that that man who's not even concerned about who's looking after his children. It comes down to women. Yep. Anyway It's like that young woman that Michaela that did the blast on the fucking pancakes. Fascist pancakes. She's gone viral. It'll be a billion views and You know, she's white, she's young, she's lippy, she's gutsy, she's you know, shows up in her jeans and T shirt, cutoffs, and she she's not gonna get beat up by the cops. They're gonna let her go. Like I know what it's like to be targeted. Yeah, well see that's the thing too, is like even for me when I came back from Las Vegas and I just wanted anonymity. I didn't want nobody to know what I was doing, where I was going, nothing. Just so I don't I didn't have to deal with that extra stress. And the even talking to, you know, people about like how I was feeling, all that was personal and again, everything we do in life that's hard teaches us something. But, you know, we've got to take care of our mental health. Our spiritual health. And that's what Nechi Institute was all about, my friend. Was taking care of your spirit. The spirit will take care of you if your spirit is healthy. That's what I you know, I talk to I'm very blunt when it comes to women and they're you know I spent what three hours last night with one woman and all her kids are on crack. Meth crystal meth. And she's now taking care of all her grandkids. And they race shit the her kids race shit all hours of the night, twenty, thirty years old. These are grown ass kids. Yes, yes. They don't have no fucking education. They didn't go to school. They didn't they just get stoned up all damn day. Yeah, like my friend in in ⁓ Portage You know, her son is staying in her house that she has in portage, climbs up on top of the roof, gets police presents ⁓ at once at least once a month. stuff. Like I said, it's you know, even with my sister and her boys, like I don't interfere because, you know, when they're high I can't reach them, can't talk to them. Like when even with women's attitudes towards me, I can't change them. You know, they've been indoctrinated and they're narcissistic or Macchian. Like I'm you know, I you know, I don't have time for that. Like I it's it it's one thing, like I said, like, you know, living alone and being lonely and taking care of my spirit, all that, you know, I have to be really you know, have some boundaries down to protect myself. more so more so too, like even talking about what we're talking about. The you know, these things, like some people just don't even give a damn or even want to talk about it. 'Cause as soon as you talk about it they change the subject and 'cause You know why? Because it hurts them to and their kids are involved in that shit. Them too have been sexually molested and their kids never dealt with it. yeah. And you think of all those children that are out there and the hundreds of thousands of them that are now in childcare. Yes. And nobody there to defend them. Exactly. I know when I took my niece, seven years of therapy. Seven years, you know, of just nurturing her. Like it takes you know, you gotta do the work. But if but if you're just on battle fatigue 'cause there's too many Well that's exactly what I'm talking about with the women that are suffering now. Right? They're bat that's a good word. Thank you. Battle fatigue. You too, I could hear that when you were in when you were in Vegas and we had no money and I had to figure out how I was gonna move over here and Like I get involved in this and that, I get, you know, invited to meetings and shit and I have to be really careful, analytical. And you too, you do the same thing. You're always on the go. Like you need a full time assistant to help you with your wheelchair, you to your motor car with your you know, your plants and your medicines. Yes. But I but at least I'm getting like I have I have s I have some help now. Like I'm just grateful I can call this constable. So he's helpful. Yes, she her name is Cheryl.