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The Queen’s Bargain -Great Clan Mother, Nancy Scanie

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Nancy Scanie,
KOW Elders Council

Cold Lake First Nation, Treaty 6

Nancy Scanie, a Denesuline woman, was born January 6, 1939 in a tent on the shores of Cold Lake. She knew the land before it had the military base, before the there was an “air weapons range” and before the lands and waters were overtaken by oil and gas industries.

She grew up off the land and says, “we never had to worry about our water, we could just go get water and drink it from anywhere; lakes, rivers, sloughs, anywhere.” She states, “I have seen a lot of changes since my childhood and now I…