I decided to run for office because I am familiar with the people's common personal problems, along with community and regional issues which have tremendously impacted people's lives too long.

I want to help them, and, hopefully, make a difference in their lives.

I've worked 22 years as a community social services worker in my home community of Deline for the Government of Northwest Territories.

The accomplishment I am most proud of is when I returned to school alone when my children were young. In 1984, I graduated from Grade 12 from Sir John Franklin High School in Yellowknife. After high school, my husband and I got married when we were young.

In 1990, I completed a two-year academic studies program which was offered through Thebacha Campus in Fort Smith. In 1993, after I completed a two-year social work program at Thebacha Campus, I worked as a social worker, with the majority of the years in my home community of Deline.

In 2018, I obtained a Bachelor of Indigenous Social Work degree from First Nations University of Canada in Saskatoon. I tried my best to be a role model for my children since they were young. I took care of them well and have been a role model for them since.

I think the biggest issue facing the territory is the intergenerational trauma which has been passed on from generation to generation, from the horrific abuse experienced by residential school survivors. Unfortunately, numerous problems resulted from unresolved trauma.

Today, across the country, Canada has a high rate of Indigenous inmates incarcerated along with Indigenous children in care of child and family services.

Some people said "get over it," but the pain remains with the people forever, who never forgot what happened to them. The biggest issue from the unresolved trauma is alcohol abuse among First Nations people.

The biggest issue in my riding is alcohol abuse.

If I could accomplish only one thing while in office, it would be to have an alcohol and drug treatment centre somewhere on the land — available to both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples — incorporating suicide prevention and other mental-health supports into the treatment.

Utilize the elders to help the First Nations clients with their healing in an Indigenous perspective: drumming, fire feeding ceremony, feasts, sewing and drum dances. This is all cultural knowledge and it is important because it will define their identity as Indigenous people.

I would like to see the territory work to address climate change.

I would change the current government's operation by making it easier for people to qualify for GNWT programs, for example, housing and income support. If there were jobs in the communities, people would work and not have to rely on income support.

I think the GNWT must honour the affirmative action policy so Indigenous peoples from the North who are qualified for jobs are able to work and keep the money in the North. In addition, the government should ensure that local residents and businesses in the North get priority for jobs and contracts, not people from down south.

I would improve the GNWT's relationship with Indigenous people by encouraging them to do more community visits so they could listen to the local residents' concerns and do something about them.

No, because running for Sahtu MLA will be a huge undertaking, I would rather represent the people as much as possible. They are too important to me.

No, the people's concerns is what I look forward to, and to help them if I can.

I feel it's imperative to the residents of the Sahtu to continue our first term initiatives in areas of capital infrastructure and enhancing programs and services.

Private sector and first-term MLA experience.

Gaining progress over my first term with public infrastructure and programming in the Sahtu.

Economic diversification.

Cost of living.

All season road access.

Maintain implementing the GNWT's climate-change strategy.

More recognition and resources to small communities.

Continuation of finalizing land rights and work with northern stakeholders to broaden all economic driver potentials.

Continue to support stakeholder engagement though the intergovernmental council.

If elected, will you be seeking a cabinet position?

Yes.

Would you like to be premier?

No.

I would like to represent the need for change and to meet the concerns of all people within the Sahtu.

I worked at the ground level and have experienced program delivery. I see the areas where the changes worked and didn't work. I have the passion to understand the Sahtu region and the commitment to do better and serve all people of the Sahtu.

The Sahtu's accomplishment of the introduction and the commitment toward the Mackenzie Valley Highway.

The graduation rate and quality of education.

Addictions and housing.

Improve the quality of education in the Sahtu.

I would like to see an alternative approach to waste management and monitoring.

I would like to see more involvement with the Indigenous groups and cost of living.

Develop strategies to address the cost of living and provide strategies to encourage local business.

Develop working relations to improve the development of programs and the opportunity within the Sahtu Region.

If I am elected I will not be seeking a cabinet position, as I would like to work and concentrate on the current and pending issues in the Sahtu. There is potential to work with our education and healthcare system and I am confident, with my commitment to the Sahtu, we can resolve our current status and move on to opportunities regarding the Mackenzie Valley Highway.

Not at this time.

I decided to run for MLA, because I believe I can make a difference with the experience I bring to the table.

I worked with the Sahtu land claim agreement from 1994 to 2008 on the board of directors, representing the Fort Good Hope Métis. I was elected chief of the Fort Good Hope Band for three terms, and was grand chief of the Sahtu for two and half years.

The accomplishments I'm most proud of as a leader is helping the Sahtu Dene Council purchase a hotel in Norman Wells.

Personal accomplishment, making sure my children stay in school.

There are a lot of issues facing the territory, one being the economy.

Here in the Sahtu, housing, education and health seem to be the top three that I'm hearing in the communities.

Get the Sahtu communities to all work toward one goal together. This would have so much more power and meaning to the people that live in the Sahtu.

Have to keep talking about climate change, it's the only way to keep things on the table that affect us all in the North.

I think should start listening to what the communities are saying and asking for would be a good start.

We all need to start listing to one another to solve this problem. Only way to find the answer to this problem.

As an Indigenous person myself, I'm hoping we can all get along to better all the North together.

If elected, I always operate as what people elected want me to do.

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