Red Pheasant, Thunderchild women honoured at provincial ceremony
Three women from the Battlefords area were honoured at a provincial gala last week.
Mabel Ouellete from Red Pheasant First Nation and Mary Thunderchild and Maria Linklater from Thunderchild First Nation were honoured as matriarchs at the annual Strength of our Women Gala, hosted by the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN).
“It was a wonderful feeling,” Ouellette said. “I had never expected anything like that to happen to me.”
The gala honoured women for achievements in different categories including education, environment, and law and justice in Saskatoon on Sept. 8. There were also 15 women honoured as matriarchs, who the FSIN said are the strengths of families and communities.