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Millie Redmond: The Flame
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From: Indigenous Toronto
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The story of activist and community-builder Millie Redmond, born on the Walpole Island First Nation in 1917. In 1981, she was chosen as a Woman of Distinction by the YMCA of Toronto for Community and Public Service. Two years later, she received the Order of Canada for Public Service.
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Miles Morrisseau
Miles Morrisseau is a Métis writer, journalist, and multimedia producer from the Métis Homeland in Manitoba. He began his career as a writer/broadcaster for CBC Radio in Winnipeg and produced documentaries on Sunday Morning, CBC Radio’s flagship documentary program. As National Native Affairs Broadcaster, Miles covered the Mohawk Gambling War in Akwesasne, the death of the Meech Lake Accord, and had access behind the barricades during the Oka Crisis, entering on one of a handful of boats that smuggled in food and medicine. He served as editorin- chief of Nativebeat, the Beat of a Different Drum, which was chosen best Native American Monthly by the Native American Journalists Association, as well as Aboriginal Voices Magazine and Indian Country Today. Miles also produced Buffalo Tracks with Evan Adams for APTN and launched Streetz FM, the first radio station by and for Indigenous youth. He has six children and seven grandchildren, and has been with his partner, Shelly Bressette, for over thirty-five years. He lives in the historic Métis community of Grand Rapids, Manitoba, on the last piece of Métis scrip land still in the hands of Métis people.
