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Muriel Betsina has overcome the physical and mental damage inflicted upon her for eight years in a Fort Resolution residential school. Betsina was just seven years old when she was removed from her community and culture, forced to learn French and English and lose her mother tongue of North Slavey.

Betsina rarely saw her close-knit family during her stay at the Roman Catholic institution. But she never forgot what life had been like on Willow Lake in Fort Norman, near Great Bear Lake.

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Muriel Betsina has overcome the physical and mental damage inflicted upon her for eight years in a Fort Resolution residential school. Betsina was just seven years old when she was removed from her community and culture, forced to learn French and English and lose her mother tongue of North Slavey.

Betsina rarely saw her close-knit family during her stay at the Roman Catholic institution. But she never forgot what life had been like on Willow Lake in Fort Norman, near Great Bear Lake.

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Muriel Betsina has overcome the physical and mental damage inflicted upon her for eight years in a Fort Resolution residential school. Betsina was just seven years old when she was removed from her community and culture, forced to learn French and English and lose her mother tongue of North Slavey.

Betsina rarely saw her close-knit family during her stay at the Roman Catholic institution. But she never forgot what life had been like on Willow Lake in Fort Norman, near Great Bear Lake.

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Muriel Betsina has overcome the physical and mental damage inflicted upon her for eight years in a Fort Resolution residential school. Betsina was just seven years old when she was removed from her community and culture, forced to learn French and English and lose her mother tongue of North Slavey.

Betsina rarely saw her close-knit family during her stay at the Roman Catholic institution. But she never forgot what life had been like on Willow Lake in Fort Norman, near Great Bear Lake.

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Peigan Elder Louise English is probably as busy now as she's ever been - and for a mother a 14 children, that's busy indeed.

Though her children are all grown - she has 35 grandchildren and eight-great-grandchildren - English is still involved in their lives, especially with the two daughters, three sons and their families who still live on the reserves. But sewing, cooking and housekeeping aren't the only things that occupy Louise's time.

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Peigan Elder Louise English is probably as busy now as she's ever been - and for a mother a 14 children, that's busy indeed.

Though her children are all grown - she has 35 grandchildren and eight-great-grandchildren - English is still involved in their lives, especially with the two daughters, three sons and their families who still live on the reserves. But sewing, cooking and housekeeping aren't the only things that occupy Louise's time.

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Peigan Elder Louise English is probably as busy now as she's ever been - and for a mother a 14 children, that's busy indeed.

Though her children are all grown - she has 35 grandchildren and eight-great-grandchildren - English is still involved in their lives, especially with the two daughters, three sons and their families who still live on the reserves. But sewing, cooking and housekeeping aren't the only things that occupy Louise's time.

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Peigan Elder Louise English is probably as busy now as she's ever been - and for a mother a 14 children, that's busy indeed.

Though her children are all grown - she has 35 grandchildren and eight-great-grandchildren - English is still involved in their lives, especially with the two daughters, three sons and their families who still live on the reserves. But sewing, cooking and housekeeping aren't the only things that occupy Louise's time.

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Elizabeth Alfred is well-known in the Native community as Jall. She is a 61-year-old Heltsiuk with an exceptional sense of humor and a hearty laugh. This is one busy woman.

Along with being president of the Vancouver Elder's Society, arranging Elder food banks, attending meetings, and giving talks at local high schools, she also sits on the Senior's Advisory Council to the Ministry of Health. And that's not to mention that she's mother of ten blood children, several foster children, grandmother of 25, and great-grandmother of three.

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Elizabeth Alfred is well-known in the Native community as Jall. She is a 61-year-old Heltsiuk with an exceptional sense of humor and a hearty laugh. This is one busy woman.

Along with being president of the Vancouver Elder's Society, arranging Elder food banks, attending meetings, and giving talks at local high schools, she also sits on the Senior's Advisory Council to the Ministry of Health. And that's not to mention that she's mother of ten blood children, several foster children, grandmother of 25, and great-grandmother of three.