The land we stand on today for this meeting is the traditional territory of many nations including the Missausagas of The Credit, the Anishawbe, the Cheppewa, the Haudensaunee of Wendat. And is now home to many First Nations, Metis and Inuit people's.
As Omushkego Cree, I am a guest on this traditional territory.
Actually, am a member of Attawapiskat First Nation, my mother and grandparents from Fort Albany, in James Bay, in northern Canada.
My mother, Annie, attended St. Anne's residential school from age 4 to 16.  I was raised for the most part 'off-reserve' in various small towns in northern Ontario, taken at age 6 by Children's Aid Society closed her file at age 16.  This would be the first time I lived on the streets and still secondary school.  Eventually I employed mainly in government, including social services, as a legal secretary for criminal defence lawyers, as a court reporter for provincial bail courts and federal prison inquests, and as a judicial assistant for the Federal Courts. 
I the mother of one daughter, Kayla, age 25 and a writer of poetry and stories, moving back here to Toronto a few months ago from Saugeen First Nation.

- Sabrina Sutherland