Joan Cachagee
Joan grew up in her family’s traditional territory, always out on the land making a living. Then she was sent to Residential School. The effects made her do drugs and drinking and one day she went in her car to ram the first semi that came her way! She had had enough!
Survivors Toolkit: Our topic is a continuation of Trust. This week we talk of ways of building trust in our lives again.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.



When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...