Aboriginal women’s rise brings power to much-needed voices – CBC

Sep 11, 2015

‘Fortunately, I believe that most of the men who inflict this violence want help so they can change’

We try not be sexist, but history tells us women have been more prone to peace and nurturing, while men have been more apt to engage in war and and the destruction it creates.

Women are the life givers. They carry the water.

For the past century, First Nations politics has been dominated by men, but things are changing.

Female indigenous leaders like Marion Ironquil Meadmore, Mary Richard, Diane Redsky, Leslie Spillett, Sharon Redsky, Nahanni Fontaine, Josie Hill … I have to stop here because the hundreds of names I could add would take all of my space … have been driving forces behind the positive changes that have been made in the social and economic development of First Nations.

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