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Non-Indigenous Canadians: Medicine Woman and Brian Rands

non-indigenous canadians: To have a one-on-one experience with this woman was quite profound for me, Molloy, 25, said, according to Huffington Post Canada. We really got to feel the importance of her role. She sat with the medicine woman of Beardy and Okemasis First Nation, who showed her the natural remedies she forages and explained the significance of her position. Molloy is white, but has Plains Cree siblings. Rands was also part of a student union movement to create bridges between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians, something she also aspired to. She comes from a long line of activists her grandparents advocated for health care services in Saskatchewan and her father, Brian Rands, lived on a northern Saskatchewan First Nation to build relations with the indigenous community there. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.