EARLY LIFE: Annie Yassie was born on July 27, 1960. She, along with her family, were members of the Sayisi Dene First Nation, which, by the time she was born, had been moved to a housing compound just outside of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The history of the Sayisi Dene is a troubled one, due to
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EARLY LIFE: Angeline Eileen Pete was born at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on December 5, 1982 to her 16-year-old mother, Molly Dixon. The pair lived with Angeline’s grandmother, Eileen Nelson, on the Quatsino First Nations reserve before shortly relocating to Vancouver. Angeline’s father and Molly were not together at the time,
EARLY LIFE: Aielah Saric-Auger was born on December 30, 1991 in Edmonton, Alberta. A member of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation, she was the youngest of six children. Her family were known to live in poverty and often didn’t have enough money to pay their bills, but this didn’t stop them from being a close
EARLY LIFE: Caralyn Aubrey King was born on December 28, 1974. Her mother, Kathy King, was a single parent who was living on welfare and finishing up the last of her university degree, and her father was unemployed and not in the picture. While an only child at first, her family would later grow to
EARLY LIFE: Angel Carlick was born on June 11, 1988 in Dease Lake, British Columbia as a member of the Kaska Dena First Nation. Her family, which included her mother, Wendy, and her brother, Alex, resided in Good Hope Lake, British Columbia, where Wendy supported them by working three jobs. Despite Alex becoming upset over





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